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Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]

Corruption

Prem Sikka: Tax-haven transparency won’t stop money laundering in Britain

May 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Money laundering is not an accident, aberration, or crime. It is an institution. Read here  

Corruption

Buzz Feed News: The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations

April 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Cash donations are supposed to be important for democracy. Large cash donation must therefore be more important for democracy. This looks like large cash donations buys you a get out of jail free card. Is […]

Corruption

Reckless opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment by Aeron Davis

April 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff Oxford, Cambridge and the old school tie used to be a passport to the pinnacles of what was known as the Establishment. Things have changed, but not much, and not […]

Corruption

Prem Sikka: The Big Four accountancy firms have long pushed tax avoidance. It’s time for regulation

April 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Complex tax dodging schemes by the ‘Big Four’ are constantly being thrown out by the courts. But why is nothing done to penalise them? Read here  

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Prem Sikka – Carillion and corporate governance

March 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The brilliant Prem Sikka on economic development in the UK  

Corruption

Larry Elliot: Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?

March 27, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The United States has been promoting monopolies for decades. This has been supported by a perversion of free market economics: monopolies provide cheaper prices and thus benefit consumers. Maybe at the till, but what about […]

Austerity

www.parliament.uk: Carillion paid out £6.4mill to advisors before £10mill taxpayer bailout

March 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest leading construction and service companies, has resulted in important analyses concerning transferring public services to private companies. One of its directors claimed that putting money into […]

Corruption

Richard Murphy – Guess who won from the Global Financial Crisis?

March 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have one tax scandal after the other. Not only do things not improve, they get worse. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues […]

Austerity

Liverpool Echo: Liverpool Uni bosses ‘could’ve saved £113,000’ by travelling standard class

March 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

They just don’t get it. When you work for the public you are being entrusted with other people’s money: trusted to use it sparingly and wisely. The higher the salary the more this seems to […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

Economics

The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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