The Finance Curse | openDemocracy

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Published on: 22 November 2018

Written by: Nat Dyer All articles by Nat Dyer

Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange...

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Published on: 27 September 2013

Written by: John Christensen All articles by John Christensen

Paying billions in tax revenues, the City would surely be an asset to any country. Wouldn't it? A new book, The...

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Published on: 26 September 2013

Written by: Tamasin Cave All articles by Tamasin Cave

Finance and the British state are mutually embedded to the point that it can be hard to tell where one stops and the...

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Published on: 25 September 2013

Written by: Adam Leaver All articles by Adam Leaver

The prosperous South East can no longer afford to subsidise the rest of the United Kingdom. Or so runs the...

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Published on: 24 September 2013

Written by: Doreen Massey All articles by Doreen Massey

The power of the financial sector in Britain has worked a transformation on the country’s ‘common sense’. A...

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Published on: 23 September 2013

Written by: Nicholas Shaxson All articles by Nicholas Shaxson

Is finance like crude oil? Countries rich in minerals are often poverty-stricken, corrupt and violent. A relatively...

Why was a warlord allowed to sue a British journalist?