CGT seeks PhD candidates to serve as advising assistants
The Committee on Global Thought seeks PhD candidates (post MPhil) to help M.A. in Global Thought students whose first language is not English develop the prose and compelling argumentation of their 35-page M.A. essays. Based on their own primary and secondary...
How Can We Tax the Footloose Multinationals?
In the last few years, globalisation has come under renewed attack. Some of the criticisms may be misplaced but one is spot on: globalisation has enabled large multinationals, such as Apple, Google and Starbucks, to avoid paying tax. Apple has become the poster child for corporate tax avoidance, with its legal claim that a few hundred people working in Ireland were the real source of its profits, and then striking a deal with that country’s government that resulted in its paying a tax amounting to .005% of its profit. …Joseph E Stiglitz is a Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute.
