i have also posted my vision on talk page for 'economy of the united states, japan, china, germany, united kingdom' articles on Wikipedia. I also posted on the Project - Econ talk page
On 9 April 2013 12:21, Alex Peek <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]>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 >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
