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Prem Sikka

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  

EU politics

Prem Sikka: The government’s ‘tough’ action on overseas tax dodging isn’t all it seems

May 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Tories are forcing overseas territories to publish who really owns companies. A welcome step – but it will do little on its own, writes accounting expert Prem Sikka. Read here  

EU politics

Prem Sikka: Shareholders have run the show for too long – it’s time for radical reform to company boards

April 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

What Prem Sikka writes is not only true for Britain, but for the rest of Europe as well. But beware:In Germany, where unions are well represented in boardrooms, union representatives often become as corrupt and […]

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  

Economics

Prem Sikka: The takeover of GKN shows that the UK can’t build a sustainable industrial policy without reducing shareholder power

April 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Does the UK have an industrial policy? Such a question is likely to become more acute as the UK seeks to forge new priorities to compete in the post-Brexit world. An answer can be teased […]

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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  

Finance

Prem Sikka: Carillion collapse: here’s how much corporate undertakers could make from the liquidation

March 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

First you earn millions for poorly advising or auditing a company, then you make hundreds of millions after it has gone bankrupt. The pension fund was not covered and thousands are unemployed as a result. […]

Finance

Prem Sikka: Here’s how Caffe Nero made £2bn in sales but didn’t pay a penny in corporation tax

March 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Prem Sikka explains how a company can make billions in profit, but book a loss at the end of the year, thus paying no taxes. Read here  

Deregulation

Prem Sikka: This decision will make a mockery of EU claims to be tackling tax havens

March 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

American Samoa, Guam, Namibia, Palau, Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago. What do these nations have in common besides that you probably do not know where they are on the map? They will probably be the […]

Finance

Prem Sikka: Big four auditing firms – Above the law?

February 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

They are not only above the law, they seem to make it. The big four auditing companies, PwC, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and Deloitte,  provide frauds and fiddles, the production of questionable and  false company […]

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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 […]

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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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