Nicholas Shaxson unveils the secrets of the seriously, filthy rich and talks me through how many of the world’s offshore tax havens are not only tropical islands, but actually British & OECD territories. Just what effect does that shadowy ‘spider web’ network of wealth extraction have on our societies? How are offshore tax havens central to the global economy? What is the finance curse?
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Renegade Inc: The student debt bomb
Out of all the arguments and excuses that people manufacture to justify the financialisation of society, the most difficult one to accept is that creating a market in education is the only way it can […]
EU politics
Renegades Inc. – Jason Hickel: Aid programs keeping countries in poverty
Jason Hickels explains his new book The Divide. Hickel uses newest facts, analyses, and theories concerning economic inequality between rich and poor nations, destroying current myths about development. View here
Corruption
Chris Bambery – Catalonia Reborn: A revolt against Spanish Nationalism?
CommonSpace editor Ben Wray spoke to Chris Bambery, co-author of newly released ‘Catalonia Reborn – How Catalonia took on the corrupt Spanish State and the Legacy of Franco’ with George Kerevan. Wray and Bambery have […]
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