《Treasure Islands》是2012年Macmillan出版的書籍，作者是Nicholas Shaxson。
基本介紹
- 書名：Treasure Islands
- 作者：Nicholas Shaxson
- 出版社：Macmillan
- 出版時間：2012年9月4日
- 頁數：264 頁
- ISBN：9780230341722
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Published to rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, "Treasure Islands" is an expose of how the corporate world uses tax havens to shirk paying its share of taxes. This costs the United States alone 100 billion dollars in lost revenue each year. While the United States experiences a recession and European countries face bankruptcy, Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the "Financial Times "and "The Economist," argues that the problem can be traced back to the pervasive practice of offshoring financing in order to minimize taxable revenue. Journeying from Moscow to London to Switzerland to Delaware, he dives deep into a vast and secret playground where bankers and multinational corporations operate side by side with nefarious tax evaders, organized criminals, and the world's wealthiest citizens. This is a fast-paced narrative that at last explains how bankers, traders, and other financial wizards are using the system to deepen our economic divide.
作者簡介
Nicholas Shaxson is a British writer, journalist and investigator. He is author of the acclaimed 2007 book Poisoned Wells: the Dirty Politics of African Oil, an Associate Fellow of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of African Affairs in London) and, following completion of Treasure Islands in 2010, a full-time writer and researcher for the Tax Justice Network, an expert-led group focused on tax and tax havens. Since 1993 he has written extensively on global business and politics for the Financial Times, Reuters, the Economist and its sister publication the Economist Intelligence Unit, International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, the BBC, Africa Confidential, African Energy, and a wide range of others.
He was born in Malawi in 1966 and has lived at various times in India, Brazil, England, Lesotho, Spain, Angola, South Africa, Germany and the Netherlands. He currently lives with his partner and their two children in Zürich, Switzerland.
