transfer pricing

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

economist Edward Prescott made a similar argument.9 Part of the answer might lie in the way that multinationals report profits, using accounting tricks like transfer pricing to exaggerate what the foreign subsidiary was earning in the low-tax foreign country and understate profit in the high-tax United States. Dark matter

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver  · 31 Aug 2012  · 829pp  · 186,976 words

it happened, I was looking for a new job. Two years out of college, I was living in Chicago and working as something called a transfer pricing consultant for the accounting firm KPMG. The job wasn’t so bad. My bosses and coworkers were friendly and professional. The pay was honest and

Bulletproof Problem Solving

by Charles Conn and Robert McLean  · 6 Mar 2019

was entitled to receive a reasonable fee for use. The giant tech companies who were using this technology, on the other hand, believed the right transfer price was zero for many reasons, including that CSIRO was a publicly funded research agency. In a CSIRO briefing to the US government, it was reported

Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 1995  · 585pp  · 165,304 words

for member companies whose profits have been adversely affected by noncompetitive pricing, much like a corporate treasury that compensates divisions for losses on distorted intracompany transfer pricing. There may be other rationales for intermarket keiretsu. The keiretsu’s brand names, for instance, can be used in new product markets to establish credibility

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

by the marketplace. IBM was segmented in divisions that were supposedly independent, but one group would “sell” their output to the next at some phony transfer price, showing a “profit.” Every division might show a profit, but the company itself would still lose money because, in the real world, someone else sold

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson  · 7 Mar 2006  · 364pp  · 101,286 words

of California in Berkeley to the campus in Los Angeles, and from medicine to business to economics. His thesis, on a classic economics topic called transfer pricing, was not going well; in fact, one professor advised he drop it. Another suggested he go visit Markowitz, who had left Chicago and was working

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

by Bob Lutz  · 31 May 2011  · 249pp  · 73,731 words

a Holden-based idea, which had evolved into a coupe body style, to be marketed as a reborn Pontiac GTO. Months passed in arguments over “transfer price” and “Who’s going to pay for the engineering and the tooling for the U.S. headlights?” GM North America’s view was “Why should

The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

by Alexander Elder  · 28 Sep 2014  · 464pp  · 117,495 words

commodity markets. Hedgers are the ultimate insiders, and a good hedging department not only buys price insurance, but also serves as a profit center. Hedgers transfer price risks to speculators who enter the markets, lured by the glitter of potential profits. It's ironic that hedgers, who have inside information, are not

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

higher unemployment rates, lower wages, and a weaker economic growth path. For many of the companies deriving a lot of their profits from intellectual property, transfer pricing and differing tax rules across legislatures allowed them to move profits separately from production, depriving governments of oft much-needed tax incomes. Free trade of

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tech firms being American or Chinese but globally active, many national governments have not been able to tax profits either, which are often shielded through transfer pricing and IP-related exemptions. If citizens and governments everywhere want to share in the wealth creation of these companies, different regulatory and tax frameworks will

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

the bookstore business itself. But Amazon is not alone in its avoidance of taxes. Bloomberg Businessweek reports, “The tactics of Google and Facebook depend on ‘transfer pricing,’ paper transactions among corporate subsidiaries that allow for allocating income to tax havens while attributing expenses to higher-tax countries. Such income shifting costs the

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by Jesse Norman  · 30 Jun 2018

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by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 words

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Left Behind

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by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

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by Greg Palast  · 14 Nov 2011  · 493pp  · 132,290 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

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by Daniel Ammann  · 12 Oct 2009  · 479pp  · 102,876 words

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by Peter L. Bernstein  · 19 Jun 2005  · 425pp  · 122,223 words

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by David Aronson  · 1 Nov 2006

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by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter  · 30 Jun 2007

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by Owen Jones  · 3 Sep 2014  · 388pp  · 125,472 words

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by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

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by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 15 Mar 2015  · 409pp  · 125,611 words

Global Financial Crisis

by Noah Berlatsky  · 19 Feb 2010

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by Raghuram Rajan  · 26 Feb 2019  · 596pp  · 163,682 words

Cuba Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

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by Vito Tanzi  · 28 Dec 2017

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by Nicholas Shaxson  · 10 Oct 2018  · 482pp  · 149,351 words

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by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson  · 27 Mar 2017  · 293pp  · 78,439 words

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder  · 3 Feb 2015  · 460pp  · 130,053 words

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by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 28 Jan 2020  · 408pp  · 108,985 words

A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 May 2014  · 385pp  · 111,807 words

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

by Tim Koller, McKinsey, Company Inc., Marc Goedhart, David Wessels, Barbara Schwimmer and Franziska Manoury  · 16 Aug 2015  · 892pp  · 91,000 words

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

by Tom Burgis  · 24 Mar 2015  · 413pp  · 119,379 words

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Alex Hyde-White  · 24 Oct 2016  · 515pp  · 142,354 words

Financing Basic Income: Addressing the Cost Objection

by Richard Pereira  · 5 Jul 2017  · 177pp  · 38,221 words

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 2 Jun 2021  · 693pp  · 169,849 words

A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins  · 1 Jan 2006  · 497pp  · 123,718 words

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 Dec 2007  · 334pp  · 98,950 words

Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

by Nicholas Shaxson  · 11 Apr 2011  · 429pp  · 120,332 words

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

by James Rickards  · 15 Nov 2016  · 354pp  · 105,322 words

Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies

by Charles de Ganahl Koch  · 14 Sep 2015  · 261pp  · 74,471 words

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions

by Jason Hickel  · 3 May 2017  · 332pp  · 106,197 words

The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman  · 14 Oct 2019  · 232pp  · 70,361 words

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

by Alec Ross  · 13 Sep 2021  · 363pp  · 109,077 words

Lonely Planet Greek Islands

by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller  · 31 Mar 2012

Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 4 Jul 2007  · 347pp  · 99,317 words

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right

by George R. Tyler  · 15 Jul 2013  · 772pp  · 203,182 words

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

by Branko Milanovic  · 10 Apr 2016  · 312pp  · 91,835 words

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

by Andrew Sayer  · 6 Nov 2014  · 504pp  · 143,303 words

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett  · 31 Oct 1994  · 1,293pp  · 357,735 words

Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

by Brett Chistophers  · 25 Apr 2023  · 404pp  · 106,233 words

Dirty Secrets How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy

by Richard Murphy  · 14 Sep 2017  · 241pp  · 63,981 words

The Joy of Tax

by Richard Murphy  · 30 Sep 2015  · 233pp  · 71,775 words

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

by Gabriel Zucman, Teresa Lavender Fagan and Thomas Piketty  · 21 Sep 2015  · 121pp  · 34,193 words

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business

by Richard Brooks  · 2 Jan 2014  · 301pp  · 88,082 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

How the World Works

by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian  · 13 Sep 2011  · 489pp  · 111,305 words