Didn’t they notice?
David Runciman: Offshore, 14 April 2011
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
by Nicholas Shaxson.
Bodley Head, 329 pp., £14.99, January 2011,978 1 84792 110 9 Show More
by Nicholas Shaxson.
Bodley Head, 329 pp., £14.99, January 2011,
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson.
Simon and Schuster, 368 pp., £11.50, March 2011,978 1 4165 8870 2 Show More
by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson.
Simon and Schuster, 368 pp., £11.50, March 2011,
“... broadly progressive tax system? Didn’t they notice what was going on? This is the question that Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson tackle in Winner-Take-All Politics. They don’t spend much time talking about offshore, but the story they tell has striking parallels with the one laid out by Shaxson. One of the ways you can identify an offshore ... ”