A Legislature for Hire: The Capture of the State in Jersey’s Offshore Finance Centre

John Christensen and Mark Hampton ()

Chapter 7 in Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens, 1999, pp 166-191 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Over the past thirty years a large number of micro-states2 and small island economies (SIEs) around the world have attracted offshore finance and tax haven activity. Their low levels of effective taxation, minimal regulatory regimes and bank secrecy made these offshore finance centres (OFCs) highly attractive to global financial capitalism. The uneven nature of the relationship between the transnational financial institutions operating offshore and their SIE hosts results in the latter competing to accommodate their fiscal and regulatory structures to the interests of financial capital.

Keywords: Monetary Union; Industrial Capital; Channel Island; Cayman Island; Senior Civil Servant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14752-6_7

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