Nick Shaxson ■ TJN’s Cobham in top-ranked UK & Ireland economists

TJN’s Cobham in top-ranked UK & Ireland economists

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17 February 2016

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From the ~~right wing~~ UK finance publication City A.M., a ranking of the top 100 economists in the U.K.

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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