Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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The Caribbean and Offshore Financial Centres

Latin Americaregion

Almost nothing on Caribbean domestic economies, but a strong and growing literature on the offshore financial industry those jurisdictions host, which is what actually matters to capital flows.

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  1. Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the WorldNicholas Shaxson, 2011
  2. MoneylandOliver Bullough, 2018
  3. The Hidden Wealth of NationsGabriel Zucman, 2015
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men WhoTreasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World
T1 Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World
Nicholas Shaxson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How offshore finance works, with Britain and the City of London at its centre.

Tax Havens: How Globalization Really WorksTax Havens: How Globalization Really Works
T2 Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works
Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The academic account of what havens do and how they compete.

The Hidden Wealth of NationsThe Hidden Wealth of Nations
T2 The Hidden Wealth of Nations
Gabriel Zucman · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How much wealth is hidden in tax havens, and how to tax it.

The Panama PapersThe Panama Papers
T2 The Panama Papers
Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider: the reporters who received and worked the Mossack Fonseca leak.

Secrecy WorldSecrecy World
T2 Secrecy World
Jake Bernstein · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the offshore shell-company industry is actually built and sold.

MoneylandMoneyland
T2 Moneyland
Oliver Bullough · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the offshore world lets officials who steal money hide it and spend it abroad.

Havens in a StormHavens in a Storm
T3 Havens in a Storm
J. C. Sharman · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

How small jurisdictions fought off the OECD's harmful tax competition drive.

Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers andCapital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
T3 Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
Brooke Harrington · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

A sociologist trains as a wealth manager to show how fortunes are shielded offshore.

Butler to the WorldButler to the World
T3 Butler to the World
Oliver Bullough · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Britain built its overseas territories into a deliberate service industry.

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