The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer - Nicholas Shaxson Audiobook
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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, he brings his knowledge to bear in an eye-opening investigation of how banks have overbalanced the economies of Western democracies, exerting an outsize effect on policy-making and effecting a brain drain of the brightest and best to the financial industry and its offshoots, much to the detriment of both business and broader society.
How did we get to this situation? Shaxson describes the transformation of banks over the twentieth century as they changed from relatively small institutions that did well for themselves by serving the needs of business, to unfettered global behemoths. As the world reeled from World War II, the banks grew bigger in the post-war restructuring, experimenting with esoteric financial instruments like the Eurobonds in the 1960s, and then in the 1970s and ’80s taking increasingly high risks in order to compete with each other to return more profit to their demanding shareholders. Now these megabanks spread the fiscal gospel that business must be taxed as little as possible, that corporations need rights previously granted to humans, and encourage a fight to the bottom between states to provide the most subsidized environment for big business, in the name of “competitivity.”
We need strong financial institutions - but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The Finance Curse is the explosive story of how finance got a stranglehold on society and how we might release ourselves from its grasp.
©2019 Nicholas Shaxson (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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| 01. Sabotage.mp3 17.74 MBs | |
| 02. Neoliberalism without Borders.mp3 29.12 MBs | |
| 03. Britain’s Second Empire.mp3 29.99 MBs | |
| 04. The Invisible Fist.mp3 29.34 MBs | |
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This post has 3 comments
January 18th, 2024
Thank you
its about time we wakeup to global scam that is globalism.
It is nothing more then a way for the few and powerful to ripoff the world, with no responsibility or liability pillaging the wealth people and nations everywhere.
January 18th, 2024
Dear SantaFe32, the term “globalism” is an anti-Semitic dog whistle used by the Alt-Right. Care to elaborate what you mean with “globalism and the few and powerful”?
January 19th, 2024
I’m not anti-finance nor anti-globalism nor anti-trade much less anti-capitalism. Learn to formulate carefully considered nuanced positions that can accept the useful things those organizational structures and institutions provide while trying to make sense of how incentives could be reformulated to get better outcomes.
A well-functioning finance layer in an economy helps fund the next sectors of growth (i.e. the electric economy or transitioning to sustainable material use or SaaS companies), it informs economic actors about the current state of their holdings and gives a clear, transparent picture of what potential investments are. Helping bad actors to hide funds, financing immoral activities, tax evasion, and creating other incentives that destroy wealth for the rest of us is what we need to weed out. Finance isn’t the problem; bad actors are the problem.
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