TREASURE ISLANDS: TAX HAVENS AND THE MEN WHO STOLE THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 11320010B40833
English Summary/英文概要： This brilliant and shocking book which reveals the true size and menace of the offshore world, the damage it is doing to our global economy, the direct effect that has on the world’s poorest nations and ordinary working people elsewhere, and the insidious way in which it is ‘controlled by the world’s major powers’.
The details are staggering:
· Over half of world trade, and most international lending, is processed through tax havens. Your television set and the programmes it plays, the bananas in your fruit bowl, and even the wood in your door frames, most likely came to your home via tax havens.
· For every dollar of aid that flows into developing countries, ten dollars of illicit money flows out under the table, mostly into or through tax havens.
· Wealthy individuals hold over ten trillion dollars offshore. Corporations hold more, and banks are the biggest users of tax havens by far.
· Tax havens have been instrumental in nearly every major economic event, in every big financial scandal, and in every financial crisis since the 1970s, including the latest global economic crisis.
TREASURE ISLANDS offers the reader a concise history of post colonial economics and politics, and a damning portrait of globalisation and the way it has been managed. The result is an intelligent and succinct analysis of a global issue that is immensely readable.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是一本銀行家、律師和會計師，都不讓你讀的書 誰偷走你的薪水? 誰偷走你的未來? 誰偷走了全世界?
這是一本銀行家、律師和會計師，都不讓你讀的書!!
近年來幾乎每一個主要的經濟事件、金融醜聞，包含近期的全球經濟危機，都與境外公司脫不了關係。本書作者為英國《經濟學人》與《金融時報》的資深記者Nicholas Shaxson，由他深入揭開這個破壞全球經濟，影響貧窮國家政策和控制世界大國的金融體系 - 避稅天堂。
關於避稅天堂的真相:
◆你家的電視，你吃得水果，甚至你家的門框，超過半數的稅金都流入避稅天堂。
◆全世界超過半數的貿易商，它們超過半數的國際銀行貸款，是透過避稅天堂一手承辦。
◆以美金計算，全世界國家的每一分美元，對於每一個開發中國家的援助，檯面下就有十美元的非法資金流入避稅之地。
◆英國和美國是世界上企業與富人最愛的兩個避稅國家。
◆許多富豪與企業利用境外公司將資金移往海外，大玩金錢遊戲。這就是避稅天堂造成貧富差距的主因之一。
想要知道誰偷走你的薪水? 誰偷走了全世界? 本書將可幫助你洞悉及時發現未來經濟趨勢。(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：揭開避稅天堂背後有錢人避稅的惡形惡狀
《黑道無國界》米夏. 葛列尼 、《逃稅天堂》理察．墨菲等暢銷作家，必讀推薦
Advance praise for TREASURE ISLANDS:
‘At last, a readable – indeed gripping – book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism that financial capital has been using to stay in charge: capturing government policy-making around the world, shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of law, and making sure that suckers like you and me pay for its operators’ opulent lifestyles.’ ---Misha Glenny author of McMafia (《黑道無國界》米夏. 葛列尼)
‘Treasure Islands is the best book on tax havens, ever. It shines a light in some very dark places. It reads like a thriller. The shocking thing is, it’s all true. The world’s suppliers of corruption services – the bankers, lawyers and accountants working from tax havens – won’t want you to read this book. Which is exactly why you should.’---Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research UK (理察．墨菲 - 英國租稅研究公司（Tax Research, LLP）執行長)
‘Shaxson does an outstanding and socially valuable job in penetrating the impenetrable and finds a deeply shocking world.’---Nicholas Stern author of The Stern Review and A Blueprint for a Safer Planet (尼古拉斯·斯特恩 - 英國社會科學院院士、被譽為“氣候經濟學之父”)
‘The struggle against money power is a struggle for human freedom, and Nicholas Shaxson’s investigation is a timely exposé of where the plunder is buried.’---John Pilger, broadcaster and author of Heroes (約翰．皮爾格)
Rights sold: Palgrave Macmillan/US, Into Publishing/Finland
Bodley Head will publish in trade paperback in January 2010
About the Author/作者介绍： Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Poisoned Wells, the Dirty Politics of African Oil, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and an experienced journalist writing regularly for The Financial Times and The Economist.
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
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