The love of money is the root of all evilI must thank Muriel Passmore, our candidate in Croham, for advising me about this podcast. This is the most enlightening podcast I've heard for many a year.
Its on the LSE web site. Look down the list of February 2011 - its the one at the bottom
The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire
Speakers: Dr Maurice Glasman, Nicholas Shaxson
Chair: Dr Ian Roxan
This event was recorded on 1 February 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
The City of London is an offshore island inside the British nation state, floating partly free from the democratic rules and restraints that bind the rest of us and fed by a network of tax havens around the world. Nicholas Shaxson and Maurice Glasman look at how this secretive network emerged and came to underpin the City's fearsome political and economic powers today. Maurice Glasman, recently appointed Labour Peer and Reader in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of Unnecessary Suffering. Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Treasure Islands: tax havens and the men who stole the world (Bodley Head) and Poisoned Wells, the Dirty Politics of African Oil, an associate fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and an experienced journalist. Dr Ian Roxan is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Department of Law at LSE.
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