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SUMMARY:Capital Entrepôts at the Margins of States. The Role of the Briti
 sh Administration in Tax haven and Offshore Banking  Developments in Forme
 r Colonies\, 1961-1978  - Kristine Sævold\, University of  Bergen (Norway
 )
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CONTACT:May Hen
DESCRIPTION:Kristine Sævold is a Ph.D-candidate in History in the Dept. o
 f \nArchaeology\, History\, Cultural Studies and Religion at the Universit
 y of \nBergen (Norway) with a specialization on tax havens and offshore \n
 financial centres (OFCs). She is interested in the origin of tax havens \n
 and offshore banking\, and how these phenomena reflect relationships \namo
 ng the market\, the state and the citizen. She has been teaching the \nhis
 tory of tax havens and OFCs to students as part of her PhD-education\, \na
 nd she engages actively in Norwegian public debates on tax havens and \nof
 fshore finance. More specifically\, her work examines the role of the \nBr
 itish administration in the set-up of havens and offshore centres in \nthe
  1960s and 1970s\, in a period of decolonization when tax haven and \noffs
 hore provisions proliferated throughout former British colonies.\n\n\nCapi
 tal Entrepôts at the Margins of States (Working Title)\n\n\nThe Role of t
 he British Administration in Tax haven and Offshore Banking \nDevelopments
  in Former Colonies\, 1961-1978\n\nAbstract\n\n\nTax havens and offshore f
 inancial centres reflect relationships among \nthe market\, the state and 
 the citizen. Despite their vital position to \nthe global political econom
 y\, little is known about their history. \nHowever\, the centrality of the
  British Empire to tax haven and offshore \nfinancial centres from its cap
 acity as a colonial power is demonstrated \nwithin the social sciences. Th
 is thesis examines the gradual formation \nand management of a British tax
  haven policy under the leadership of the \nTreasury from 1961 to 1978\, a
  period when tax haven debates peaked \nwithin the British administration 
 in the post-war period. The analysis \nbuilds on sources from British publ
 ic archives\, asking\; which \nterritories were analysed to be tax havens\
 , and why? Whose interests \nwere at stake\, and who influenced the Britis
 h tax haven policy? The \nBritish authorities allowed through ad hoc decis
 ions a system to rise as \na result of negotiated interests among tax have
 ns\, a professional \nconsultancy industry\, foreign investors and a forgi
 ving metropolitan \nstate. Unclear sovereign relationships among the metro
 politan power and \ncolonial remnants created rooms of manoeuvre of which 
 market agents \nutilized to benefit private interests. The result was the 
 growth of \npolitical and economic organizational forms referred to by Bri
 tish \nofficials as "financial pirates` nests" and "private islands". A ta
 x \nhaven model was understood within Whitehall institutions to grow out o
 f \none forerunner\; the Free port of Bahamas of 1955\, to spread througho
 ut \nformer colonies in the 1960s\, and eventually emerge with modern offs
 hore \nbanking from the late 1960s. The role of the British administration
  in \nthis transition is analysed here as a contribution to the emergence 
 of a \nspecific feature of capitalism conceptualized here as "Capital \nEn
 trepôts" at the margins of states.
LOCATION:Law Faculty\, Graduate Common Room G26
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