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The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires
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Palan, R.. 0-8014-7295-4 edic.2006 The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial centre in the world land-locked Zurich a venerable offshore banking centre. Indeed, it is estimated that half of the global stock of money passes through tax havens. The logic of the offshore world, where millionaires and corporations roam in search of financial advantage, is slippery. It challenges many conventional assumptions about power and economics. In this comprehensiv
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