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Oregon, 120
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 24–5, 120, 127, 146, 149–52, 150, 160–2, 167–70, 188, 217, 222–3
and “blacklist” for tax havens, 24–5, 150, 161–2, 168–9
project against tax havens, 149–52, 160–2, 167–70
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 82, 152–3
Owens, Jeffrey, 24
ownership and finance, 52–3
and LLCs, 121–2, 202
and offshore secrecy, 37, 120, 133, 173–4, 225–6
and regulation, 42
as separate from operation, 52–3, 218, 239n18
and trusts, 43–6, 69
Packwood, Bob, 151
Padilla-Kaltenborn, Stephanie, 177
Pakistan, 30, 58, 133
Palan, Ronen, 114–15
Panama, 6, 23, 26–7, 38, 44, 97, 99, 108, 111, 113, 133, 236n31
Paris, 1–3, 5, 9–10, 44–7, 70, 150, 161, 233n1
Parmalat, 132, 166
Parsons, M. H., 89
Pasqua, Charles, 4
Patnaik, Prabhat, 56
PATRIOT Act, 225
patriotism, 39–43
Peck, Polly, 204
Peron, Juan, 35
Picciotto, Sol, 42, 147, 239n13
Pindling, Lynden, 90, 98
Ping, Jean, 2
Pinochet, Augusto, 179
Pitman, Shona, 190
Pitman, Trevor, 188 “plausible deniability,” 166–7
political power, 7, 13, 31, 65, 151–3, 178–82
post-colonial: See Omar Bongo
political theory, 86, 151
Portillo, José Lopez, 143
Portugal, 17, 206
poverty, 1–2, 9, 16, 20, 28–9, 34, 57, 73, 104, 126, 131, 140, 143–4, 164, 175, 189, 192, 223–4, 229, 231
power distribution, 8–10, 86
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), 25, 202, 209
private equity, 103, 132, 216, 230
Privy Council in London, 18, 94, 103, 148
progressive taxation, 162–3
Public Choice Theory, 151
Putin, Vladimir, 156
Qualified Intermediary Program, 119–20
Queen Victoria of England, 104
Quinlan, Andrew, 150, 162
Rahn, Richard, 163–4
Rally for the Republic (RPR), 4
Ramsay, Robin, 69–70
Raw, Charles, 96, 98
Rawls, John, 86
Reagan, Ronald, 32, 84, 113–14, 116–17, 151, 195, 197–8, 204
redistribution, and taxation, 164
reform, 221–31
Reinhardt, Carmen, 60
Repo 105, 67–8
representation, and taxation, 145, 164
Republican party, 31, 54, 58, 121, 123, 140, 150–1, 159, 195, 254n4 “rehypothecation,” 68
reinvoicing, 25, 182–3
repricing, and taxation, 164
reserve currency, 83–4
reserves, banking, 98
revenue, and taxation, 164
revocable trusts, 46
Ricardo, David, 16
the rich: See elites; les grandes
Ridley, Tim, 181
Riggs Bank, 179 “ring-fence,” 12, 199, 250n25 The Rise and Fall of the House of Vestey (Knightley), 35
Robbins, Lionel, 59
Roberston, James, 79
Robinson, Jeffrey, 79, 88–9
Rockefeller, David, 107–8
Rodrik, Dani, 59–60, 165, 240n22
Rogoff, Kenneth, 60
Roosa, Robert, 80
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 31, 54, 97, 239n9
Roosevelt, James, 97
Rosenbloom, David, 117–18, 120, 148
Roth, William, 150
Rothwell, John, 207–8
“round-tripping,” 148
Routier, Airy, 4 “Rs” of taxation, 164
Rubin, Robert, 119
Rushdie, Salman, 178–9
Russell, Bertrand, 51
Russia, 27, 36–7, 58, 68–9, 99, 104, 111, 120, 131, 137–9, 199, 206, 217, 225, 249n18, 250n21
Sampson, Anthony, 64
Sands, Stafford, 89–90
Sarbanes-Oxley, 68
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 5, 24–5
Saudi Arabia, 10, 69, 131, 133, 157, 217
saucissonage, 27–8
Savimbi, Jonas, 136
Scriven, Martyn, 104–5
secrecy jurisdictions: See tax havens
securitization, 26, 70, 125, 200–1, 209
September 11, 2001, 167, 173, 225
Sharife, Khadija, 22, 236n31
Sharman, Jason, 24, 162
shell banks/companies, 29, 111, 120–1, 172–3, 225–6
Sikka, Prem, 204–5, 207–9
Silverstein, Ken, 255n18
Singapore, 19, 27, 33, 106, 116, 121, 209, 234n12
Skidelsky, Robert, 49–50, 54
small business, 15, 38–9
Smith, Adam, 162, 165
Smith, Vernon, 151
social capital, 164
socialism, 4, 51, 150, 163
Salomon Brothers, 82
Snow, John, 140
Somalia, 16
South Africa, 19, 22, 37, 105, 147, 165, 183–4, 209
South Korea, 17, 85, 147, 251n37
Southern, Geoff, 188, 191, 206
sovereign debt funds, 143–4
sovereignty, 23, 84, 161, 196, 228
Soviet Union, 33, 49, 51, 75, 120, 131, 137, 206
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs), 125, 212, 256n40
Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), 26, 178, 180
Spencer, David, 8–9
Standard Oil, 23, 36, 39, 108
Stanford, Sir Allen,