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The G7 legalizes the right to defraud

Last weekend, the G7 ministers announced their intention to apply a minimum tax rate of 15% on the offshore profits of multinationals. Let us be clear: if we leave it at that, it is nothing more and nothing less than the formalisation of a real licence to defraud for the most powerful players. For small and medium-sized enterprises as well as for the working and middle classes, it is impossible to create a subsidiary to relocate its profits or income to a tax haven. For all these...

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What I learned from Thomas Piketty Capital in the 21st Century (and Floyd Mayweather)

In most of history and most countries, the top decile owned most of the total wealth. This could be assumed as a constant of societies. Governments and laws of course play a role in smoothing out the distribution to make it fairer, but the scope of its impacts in my opinion will stay limited. What you can do instead is to Become So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport). I highly recommend reading Cal Newport's books: Become So Good They Can't Ignore You and Deep Work. You can check his...

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Agora-slipp: Thomas Piketty

Tidsskriftet Agora publiserte et nytt nummer med Thomas Piketty som tema og med hovedfokus på hans siste bok Kapital og ideologi. Det inneholder åtte bidrag av sosiologer, økonomer, historikere, filosofer og statsvitere, et intervju og ikke minst et omfattende essay som Piketty har skrevet spesielt for dette nummeret. Paneldeltakere: - Jørgen Pedersen, postdoktor filosofi, Universitetet i Bergen - Ingrid Hjertaker, stipendiat, Høgskolen i Innlandet - Sigrun...

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