The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson

Book Overview

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the "resource curse," seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, revised with chapters exclusive to this American edition, he takes us...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802149006
• ISBN13: 9780802149008
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"