Books written by Ronen Palan

  • Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works

    In 2005 the European Court of Justice offered an opinion on a KPMG-promoted Box 3.3 Congressional subcommittee chaired by Senator Carl Levin The Levin Subcommittee has focused its investigation on generic abusive tax shelters sold to ...

  • Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories

    This textbook provides up-to-date summaries of the debates and approaches that are currently at the forefront of both European and American GPE.

  • Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories

    What are the cutting edge debates in global political economy? This book presents an invaluable overview of all the major contemporary debates and approaches at the forefront of European and North American global political economy.

  • Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance

    I mean, real money." The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial system, but a built-in feature.

  • Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories

    Council of EconomicAdvisors (1994) Economic Report of the President, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. Cowen, M. P. and Shenton, ... Cox, R. W. (2002) The Political Economy of a Plural World, London: Routledge.

  • Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works

    An up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax havens in the global financial system - their history, inner workings, impact, extent and enforcement.

  • Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories

    The text aims to provide succinct summaries of topical, wide-ranging issues and controversies, presenting a compact guide which should be of use to students and lecturers in IPE and international relations.

  • The Imagined Economies of Globalization

    To put it differently , the imagined community of the territorial nation - state , the dominant and perhaps constitutive imagery of political life in the past two centuries , is very rapidly giving way to a series of imagined economies ...

  • The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires

    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.

  • Legacies of Empire

    This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary 'national' ones.

  • Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works

    Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth—the equivalent of the annual U.S. Gross National Product—and serving as the legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax havens also skew the ...

  • 逃稅天堂?: 打開全球化資產遊戲的藏寶圖

    Traditional Chinese edition of Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works. Nearly $13 trillion are sheltered in "tax havens" like the Cayman Islands, the Panama, Hong Kong, even Delaware, by big...

  • Sabotage: The Business of Finance

    In Sabotage, political scientists Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan blow this fiction apart, showing that sabotage is not an anomaly, but part of the business model of finance - and always has been.