I'm in the marketing stage of the project and looking for editors for this project. I have posted the project proposal to Krugman's blog and a few separate blogs on the Economist.
Any advice on what I should next do to get the word out? On 8 April 2013 14:57, Mathieu Stumpf <psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Le lundi 08 avril 2013 à 23:09 +0200, Jane Darnell a écrit : > > Mathieu, > > I just watched a Dutch documentary about this same issue last week. > > The main gist of the documentary is that the corporations avoid taxes > > in a structured way: they go to tax havens or take advantage of > > economic arrangements where the the first five years of residence are > > tax free in return for starting up a business. The countries offering > > the tax haven are hoping for sustainable local business, but instead, > > after 5 years the premises are deserted and offered tax free to the > > next corporation, so that a rotational system of multi-nationals is > > devised. The global economy has become not only a mobile one for > > individuals, but also for corporations. > > > > In order to be able to see such developments in an open "economic > > map", much more underlying data needs to be plugged in to Wikipedia in > > terms of articles about global industrial localities, global > > industrial corporations, and then local economic industrial data. All > > of these things are very badly documented when it comes to developing > > countries, where much of this is happening. Today, Wikipedia is mainly > > written in (and about!) Western Europe and North America. > > Jane > > What I understood from the France Culture radio emission was even worst, > because it said it was not "exception of the system" but the "core of > the modern financial system". It said that the tax haven countries can > be tax havens only because they passed an agreement with other > countries. In other word, the "political will" is to maintain this > system. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
