Nicholas Shaxson

Shaxson is the author of The Finance Curse. He is also the author of Poisoned Wells (2007), a book about the resource curse in Africa; Treasure Islands (2012), a book about tax havens.

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To Boost Prosperity, We Must Shrink the Financial Sector

The tiny Baltic state of Latvia, a western member of the NATO alliance nestled against Russia’s northern border with Europe, is especially vulnerable to fake news and foreign influence operations. A quarter of its population...

By Nicholas Shaxson
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