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Did Ireland’s 12.5 percent corporate tax rate create the Celtic Tiger?
Update: reposted on Naked Capitalism site in the U.S., and the Angry Bear tax and economics blog, and the Middle Class Political Economist. Update 2: See also Ireland’s Recent Success Not Built on Low...
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Krippner: how the US avoided tough decisions through deregulation
A short review of Greta Krippner’s Capitalising on Crisis – The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. By Jack Copley. Financial markets are fundamentally concerned with the future. Loans to...
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What is Competitiveness? #1 Robert Reich
Robert Reich: when you hear the term “American competitiveness,” watch your wallet. This is the first in an ongoing series of articles we are planning, to explore what competitiveness is, from the...
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Quote of the week: Bill Gates on corporate taxes
Photo: World Economic Forum, Creative Commons From a Bloomberg report on a Bill Gates interview: ‘Gates scoffed at comparisons linking taxes and regulation to slower growth. “The idea that there’s some...
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U.S.: new transparency on corporate tax breaks
Across the world corporations are showered with tax breaks and other inducements in the name of ‘competitiveness.’ In most cases these tax breaks don’t affect investment decisions in any way. They are...
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The ALEC rankings: does smaller government mean higher growth?
There are a lot of ‘competitiveness’-related rankings of countries and states out there, from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, to the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business...
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Yesterday we received an email containing our quote of the day: “this decades-overdue accounting rule is a historic development of tectonic proportions. It will enable analyses never before possible...
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How ‘competitive’ tax and incentive policies hurt small U.S. businesses
The Competitiveness Agenda, in a pie chart Recently we have written about how supposedly ‘competitive’ national policies on tax and the financial sector in Britain tend to favour large multinational...
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New research: ‘competing’ aggressively on tax reduces growth
Dr. Nikolay Anguelov Recently we posted an article entitled New studies: do ‘competitive’ corporate tax cuts boost growth? – to which the answer was a qualified ‘no.’ Well, now we are delighted to host...
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Thorstein Veblen: The Thinker Who Saw Through the Competitiveness Agenda
Thorstein Veblen There are many instances in the history of economic thought where economists did not use what today has become the concept of ‘national competitiveness’ but nonetheless wrote about...
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A graphical assault on supply-side tax cuts and tax ‘competitiveness’
War Games, Tax Wars The author of today’s FG blog has just had a piece in the Washington Post entitled Five Myths about Tax Havens in which Myth 5 goes like this: “5. Cutting corporate taxes helps...
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New U.S. Research Shows Millionaires Less Mobile than the Rest of Us
From Citizens for Tax Justice, a blog that’s worth reproducing in full, as yet more useful ammunition to wheel out against those who keep banging on about tax cuts and so-called ‘competitiveness.’ New...
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Overcharged: the high costs of high finance
From the Roosevelt Institute in the United States, a long report that seeks to generate an overall estimate of costs to the US economy of the financial sector, over and above the benefits that the...
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