The Finance Curse

A searing indictment of global finance, exploring how the banking sector grew from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world, and showing how societies might fight against financial hegemony

Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World and Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil. He is a journalist, campaigner, and world expert on both tax havens and financial centers, as well as the Resource Curse. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Financial Times, the Economist, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and many others. He lives in Germany.