In “The Hidden Wealth of Nations”, Gabriel Zucman writes: “(w)e can no longer continue to liberalize trade while completely ignoring the problems of fiscal dissimulation.” In the World Investment Report 2015, we read: “Ongoing anti-avoidance … [Read more...]
Thirteen Billion, Lucky for Some?
By Tony Phillips, Attac. (First published in the Irish Left Review). Cork is a pretty city on the river Lee in the south of Ireland where I lived for part of my childhood. Cupertino in the Silicon Valley is the HQ of Apple Inc. As an Irishman and … [Read more...]
Perspectives on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and Argentina’s Debt
The following article is written by Tony Phillips an Irish and Argentine economist specialising in the build up to and the consequences of excessive national debt. He is Editor (with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine minister for … [Read more...]
Report-back meeting from European Civil Society’s anti-TTIP & CETA strategy meeting
A Call To Action: 6.30pm, Tuesday 1st March, 2016, in Wigwam, 54 Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1. All welcome. CETA is just as bad as TTIP and it may be law by mid-May. From 22nd to 24th February in Brussels, activists and campaigners from national … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Economist Esther Jefferson talks on shadow banking
Esther Jeffers, a French economist specialised in banking gave a talk on shadow banking in DIT on 5th April 2014. The talk was organised by Attac Ireland. The video is now online, so check it out! A brief dictionary of some terms used (source: … [Read more...]
