Tax Havens and Offshore Finance: A Study of Transnational Economic Development (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Economics)

__Tax Havens and Offshore Finance__ examines the subject of offshore finance centres. Cover Contents List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgements PART I: The General Economic Rationale for Offshore Finance Centre Development Chapter I: The Importance of National Friction Structures and Distortions Therein and the International Politico-economic Friction Matrix Chapter II: The Emergence of the International 'Intermediate' Economy and the Semiperipheral Global Secondary Trading System Chapter III: The Onshore Exercise of 'Countervailing' Power to Pre-empt or Limit the Extent of Offshore Appropriation of Invisible Trade Activities Chapter IV: The Competitive Power of Offshore States and the Art of International Economic 'Frictioneering' PART II: A Regional Case Study of the Development of the British Isle Offshore Finance Centres Chapter I: The Effective Constitutional Parameters of Politico-fiscal Sovereignty of the British Isle Centres Chapter II: UK Monetary Union and the Sterling 'Currency Bond' Chapter III: The Development of Jersey as the British Isle Offshore Banking Centre 1955–78 Chapter IV: The Diversified Development of Guernsey 1960–78 Chapter V: The Isle of Man and the Problem of Offshore Take-Off 1961–78 Chapter VI: The Drive to 'Independent' Industrial Maturity since 1979 PART III: The Global Pattern of Offshore Finance Centre Development Since 1970 Chapter I: The Development Decade of the 1970s: A Global Review of the Offshore Transformation of Tax Haven Centres 1. The Caribbean Basin 2. Europe 3. The Middle East 4. The Far East and Oceania Chapter II: The Restructuring of the International Friction Matrix in the 1980s Bibliography Index A B C D E F G I L M N O P R S T U V W "Tax Havens and Offshore Finance examines the subject of offshore finance centres."--Bloomsbury Publishing.