Offshore : tax havens and the rule of global crime / Alain Deneault ; translated from the French by George Holoch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deneault, Alain, 1970-

Contributor:

Holoch, George.

Standardized Title:

Offshore. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tax havens.

Informal sector (Economics).

Tax evasion.

International finance.

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers?from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru? amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain Deneault depicts something larger and more ominous than simple ?tax havens" where financial elites and corporations must reside X days out of every calendar year to protect their earnings.

Contents:

Death of a fiscal principle

Recollection of supreme power

The colonial genealogy of tax havens

The creation of modern tax havens

Criminal lairs

A perfect union between legitimate states and tax havens

Dens of industrial relocation

Plunder registered offshore

Delaware, USA : the domestic haven

The comedy of the "fight against tax havens"

Two-headed Europe

The reduction of democracies to legalistic states

Offshore sovereignty

An offshore mass esthetic

Secrecy.

Notes:

First published in France by La Fabrique editions, Paris, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613632579

9781280646546

1280646543

9781595588463

1595588469

OCLC:

779828882