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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

4 years

What happened to European investments & assets when Europeans left the colonial world @ the end of #empire ? Hint: answer has to do with the expansion of #taxhavens in 1950s, 60s. Read about #Decolonization as a global movement of money: #twitterstorians

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I wrote about the opaque world of shipping for @nybooks . The industry that moves more than 80% of global trade has massive regulatory, environmental, and labor law issues, all facilitated by tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions

Shipping’s Shadow World | Vanessa Ogle

In the early morning hours of March 26, emergency workers in Baltimore received a mayday call from the Dali, a 985-foot container ship. Shortly after

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4 years

How do we make sense of the fact that our present-day system of #offshore #taxhavens expanded significantly during the 1950s&60s, the main decades of decolonization? In this piece, I explore part of the answer to this question: a thread #twitterstorians

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An underappreciated aspect of Amy Offner's brilliant and devastating critique of intellectual histories of neoliberalism, upon re-reading for class today: such histories attribute too much creativity, originality, and intellectual energy to the usual suspects cast of characters

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@vanessahistory

4 years

I have a piece @PastPresentSoc 's blog on the connection between decolonization and the growth of #taxhavens in the 50s and 60s. Check out what happened to European assets invested in the colonial world when Europeans left empires upon independence

How Decolonisation Helped Create Tax Havens - Past and Present

by Dr. Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley) Tax avoidance, illegal tax evasion, and the system of offshore tax havens that often enables such practices make the news almost weekly....

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Beginning in the late 1960s, the @FT began publishing multi-page spreads "reporting" on #taxhavens . While branded as journalism, it was really free advertising. I argue in my book manuscript that the paper made itself part of the tax avoidance industry #offshore @lionelbarber

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@vanessahistory

3 years

.I was on @democracynow earlier this morning in a segment on the @ICIJorg 's Pandora Papers, briefly talking about the legacies of empire for tax evasion and tax havens. It was fun, it's such a great program! #PandoraPapers

Pandora Papers: Massive Leak Exposes How Elite Shield Their Wealth & Avoid Taxes in Colonial Legacy

The Pandora Papers, described as “the world’s largest-ever journalistic collaboration,” have revealed the secret financial dealings of the world’s richest and most powerful people. “We’ve uncovered a...

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@vanessahistory

7 years

#TaxHavens contribute to rising #inequality by allowing the superrich and corporations to stash away wealth and earnings. Read my article on the emergence of #offshore as a comprehensive system in the 50s-70s here #twitterstorians #taxjustice

Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s

Abstract. This article traces the emergence of an archipelago-like landscape of distinct legal and economic spaces throughout the long midcentury. Consisti

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

4 years

"Tax Havens: Legal Recoding of Colonial Plunder"- I wrote another piece based on recent research, this one for Yale's Law and Political Economy @LPEblog . Thanks to @LDHerrine for great edits! #offshore #taxhavens #twitterstorians #EconTwitter

Tax Havens: Legal Recoding of Colonial Plunder

The end of European empires during the mid-twentieth century and the independence of former colonies was many things: an oft-violent conflict between unequal opponents, a clash of ideas and ideolog...

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@vanessahistory

5 years

It's alive! My "Modern Money: A Global History" lecture for this semester has a syllabus! Very excited to teach this course and for Thursday's first class! #GoBears #twitterstorians #teaching #pedagogy #money #capitalism @UCBHistory @UCBerkeley

Syllabus Modern Money 2019.pdf

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@vanessahistory

1 year

A spider web of Nazi business abroad: Figuring out (or not) Siemens' international entanglements and holding structures in Europe, Asia, US, and LatAm in 1943...

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@vanessahistory

6 years

#twitterstorians : who are you favorite FEMALE historians writing on the 'new' history of capitalism/political economy/economic/business history? I want to compile a footnote for a piece on time, temporality, and capitalism that highlights contributions by women... #capitalism

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Women apparently don’t write or edit important books in Atlantic history, picked in typical, Harvard Society of Fellows/Bailyn manner #twitterstorians

Five Books

@five_books

6 years

@Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn recommends reading on three centuries of empire, conflict and slave trading between the Americas, Europe and Africa @Harvard_Press

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@vanessahistory

4 years

I wrote for @NewStatesman on tax havens, colonial white flight, the end of Britain’s empire,and offshore’s impact on the global south, past and present #offshore #empire #taxhavens

The end of empire and the rise of tax havens

How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Honored and humbled to receive the @BerksConference 's best article prize for a 2017 article on any topic. Thanks to everybody who helped me get the piece in publication shape, through individual comments, feedback, conversations, and at seminars where I presented. #twitterstorian

American Historical Review

@AmHistReview

6 years

Yes, another AHR article wins a prize: Vanessa Ogle's "Archipelago Capitalism" wins the Berks award for best article in 2017. Read it here: ; Ogle interviewed by AHR here:

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@vanessahistory

4 years

"What country has 100,000 turtles, 100 banks, 12,000 people.... and no taxes?" What a cute little #taxevasion ad in the @FT , 1974. Interbank collapsed later in 1974 #offshore #taxhavens #caymanislands

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@vanessahistory

6 months

Get your hands on this early folks, it's 🔥🔥🔥

The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire

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@vanessahistory

6 years

The idea of the Free World emerged in the West post-1945 as a way to explicitly contrast the restrictions of movement and border crossing by and in Communist bloc countries #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Bonfires of #Empire : British Bank of West Africa describes the difficulties of burning docs after quitting Tangier in 1960: “We have tried the Municipal Incinerator but after wasting a great deal of time we abandoned this alternative.” #decolonization #twitterstorians #archives

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Germans love Frische Luft reinlassen AND FINALLY COVID IS FORCING THE WORLD TO PAY ATTENTION THANK YOU #Queerl üften #ventilation #twiceaday #atleast

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Global #money : Circulation of the Maria Theresa Thaler, 1750-1960 (yes, that’s 1960-the MTT was still used around Horn of Africa and Red Sea by mid-20th c) #twitterstorians #capitalism

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@vanessahistory

7 months

Hello from the Cayman Islands where the National Archives thankfully are closed on Saturdays #offshore #capitalism 🏖️🏊‍♀️🏝️🌊☀️⛱️

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@vanessahistory

1 year

Just saw our special vol of Journal of Modern European History on Economic Narratives is out! Check out the essays! Did a short piece on narratives of development and tax havens, preview of book chapter on tax havenry in Caribbean island territories

Economic Narratives. Edited by Laetitia Lenel and Alexander Nützenadel - Laetitia Lenel, Alexander...

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@vanessahistory

4 years

This @PastPresentSoc piece took very long to research, tracing secretive movements of money in highly sanitized bank archives turns out to be complicated. I'll do a more substantial thematic thread tomorrow but I'm very happy it's finally out online #taxhavens #offshore

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@vanessahistory

4 years

How business owners, heirs to family fortunes, & other superrich cheat their way out of paying taxes: a short 🧵 featuring recent pieces on #taxevasion #inequality #offshore Let's start with a key difference in how the superrich💰💵💵 and regular earners 👩‍🚒👨‍🏫👩🏻‍✈️👨🏻‍🔧👨‍⚕️👩🏻‍💼 pay taxes.

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@vanessahistory

8 years

Come be a history major, so when you're an editor/journalist @nytimes you won't come up w embarrassing headlines #Castro #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

4 months

“I swear I am not actually doing more research instead of writing up the book, I am just looking at two VERY THIN FILES while passing through on a trip “ 😬

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@vanessahistory

6 years

OMG, this is embarrassing to say the least.... #manels @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory @penguinpress @analuciaraujo_ @womnknowhistory #twitterstorians #womenalsoknowhistory

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@vanessahistory

2 years

Recently received my courtesy copy of this exciting new @CambridgeUP volume, thanks @GHIWashington ! Can’t wait to check out the exciting contributions #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

1 year

Page proofing 👀🤓🧐👀 forthcoming piece on intl tax governance @TheBHCNews

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Very much in favor of this decision. Note also that @AHAhistorians encourages search committees to only request letters of recommendation from those who have passed initial screening, an important addition

American Historical Association

@AHAhistorians

5 years

The AHA will no longer sponsor employment interviews at its annual meeting. Details here:

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@vanessahistory

6 years

"What do you do?" "I'm a historian" "What kind of history?" "I'm currently working on political-economic history, I am writing a book on the history of tax havens and offshore finance" *men proceed to explain my topic to me* #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Not one woman could be included in this lineup? #twitterstorians

H-Diplo, with RJISSF

@HDiplo

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Roundtable XX-33 on A.G. Hopkins. American Empire: A Global History,

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@vanessahistory

4 years

From @madeline_woker 's fascinating diss Empire of Inequality: The Politics of Taxation in the French Empire, 1900-1950. Whites in colonies had become so accustomed to low rates/evasion that upon #decolonization of course they would send their $ to #taxhavens ... #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Thank you @SHAFRhistorians for awarding my recent @ahr_editor article on #taxhavens () the Bernath article prize, truly a great honor!! Regret v much not being able to attend @SHAFRConference last weekend while on research in Europe #twitterstorians

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6 years

#twitterstorians , I'm beginning to think about new lecture next fall, Modern Money: A Global History (ca 17th-present). Introductory level. What are some of your favorite, creative, imaginative, fun, TOPICS and stories to include in this deliberately wide open subject? Thanks!

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@vanessahistory

3 years

This arrived today, yay! #twitterstorians ⁦ @nelsonhist ⁩

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Fascinating: Black Howard U librarian Dorothy Porter created new classification system: Previously under Dewey, black authors regardless of subject matter were all catalogued as 325, the number reserved for colonization #twitterstorians

December 2018 – AHA

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@vanessahistory

4 years

"Grading each country’s tax and legal system with a “haven score” out of 100, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda all gained the maximum score." Britain and tax havens, enabling revenue steal since the 1920s

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Dear @nytimes , when planning your next puff piece about financial aid at Princeton etc. and 'how you don't actually have to be rich to attend [insert Ivy League university]', consider the UC system (and CUNY for that matter) #highered #firstgen

Nils Gilman

@nils_gilman

6 years

The University of California enrolls more Pell Grant eligible undergrads than UChicago + Duke + Stanford + Northwestern + *the entire Ivy League* enroll undergrads, period. There’s no private sector substitute for high quality public higher education.

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@vanessahistory

5 years

...Why I want to write a book about the history of shipping in the 20th and 21st c as my next project!

Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

5 years

CO2 on shipping lanes. It sounds ghoulish to say so, but one of the ways in which climate politics changes everything is that it exposes the physical sinews of our world far more starkly than standard econ policy discussion. @AnjliRaval @joshspero

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Out today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @womnknowhistory #twitterstorians #womenalsoknowhistory

Women and the History of International Thought

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@vanessahistory

6 years

So excited to be part of this! My keynote for today: "Will the Real Internationalists Please Stand Up: Writing Histories of the Global One Percent", as one possible new direction for international history #inthist18 #inthist #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

7 months

Starting tomorrow afternoon! Come join us for an exciting conference #capitalism #neoliberalism

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Short thread: instead of capturing govts®ulators in existing countries, why not create your own libertarian #offshore #taxhaven by hijacking&promoting secessionist anti-colonial independence movements? Tried here in Vanuatu/then colony of New Hebrides in 1975 #twitterstorians

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

2 years

Are all Harvard undergrads somehow required to purchase a $1300+ Canada Goose winter coat? Because it sure looks like that in The Square

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@vanessahistory

3 years

In a longer segment, I would have talked abt other issues arising from the #PandoraPapers 🧵. ICIJ's work is remarkable. As someone who spends time w descriptions of obfuscated legal vehicles for holding assets, I assure you their reconstruction of stories is a major feat. But:

vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

3 years

.I was on @democracynow earlier this morning in a segment on the @ICIJorg 's Pandora Papers, briefly talking about the legacies of empire for tax evasion and tax havens. It was fun, it's such a great program! #PandoraPapers

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@vanessahistory

5 years

The other internationalists: major Nazis who obtained refugee travel papers from Intl Committee of the Red Cross, via CH and Italy, often with Vatican help, to offshore themselves&their assets to LatAm and other places at end of WWII #internationalism #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Very excited for this: "Tax Avoidance at Sea: Runaway Flags, Tax Havens, and Precarious Labor, 1920s-1970s," another new talk, March 1, 5:30pm GMT, @LeverhulmeTrust lecture in connection with @ihr_history Imperial&World History seminar. Zoom: @kingshistory

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@vanessahistory

5 years

. @UCBHistory garners not one but TWO @GuggFellows this year, congrats to my awesome colleagues @BrianDeLay and @James11Vernon !! Such great projects: histories of the US arms trade&history of #Heathrow as a lens on socio-econ transformations under late capitalism #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

4 years

“The problem with weighing pros and cons is that it presumes there is a point at which the story is over, the accounts are closed, &we can actually tot up the balance”-From @PriyaSatia 's new book on Britain's imperial myths, reviewed by Maya Jasanoff

Misremembering the British Empire

How did the British become so blinkered about their nation’s imperial history?

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Norman Stone - A man who appears to have shamelessly and ruthlessly abused his power in life. I hope we are nearing a time when such behavior will no longer be tolerated from 'clever' and 'brilliant' men who get away with stuff because 'clever', 'brilliant' #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Thread: Amazing resource for tracking corporate #taxhaven strategies&costs. What stands out: absence of data for Africa, ME, etc. We have to talk more abt costs of #taxavoidance for low-income countries, beginning w history of shifting profits from the late colonial world 1/n

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Friendly reminder if you continue to accept invitations to Niall Ferguson events/invite him you might not only end up at an all-male, all-white conference but also work w s’one who thinks ‘oppo research’ on undergraduate students is fine #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

6 years

The gf and I are going to #Seville over the winter holidays and I am already super excited!!!!!!!! 🕌⛪️🏰✈️

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@vanessahistory

5 years

#twitterstorians : what are your favorite in-class and out of class smaller exercises for a lecture class of ca. 50? What are your favorite final projects in lieu of exam? I'm disillusioned about what papers&midterm/final exams can achieve so would like to do something different

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Current list of weekly topics my #modernmoney survey lecture will cover in fall 2019: Financial innovation Global currencies Forgeries Speculation, bubbles, manias Money in other forms Debt Inflation Crashes Bitcoin #syllabusmaking #twitterstorians #teaching #capitalism

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5 years

In a forthcoming article in Past and Present, I show how white European settlers, businessmen, officials etc liquidated their assets during decolonization, fearful of newly independent governments and their attitude towards foreigners and their money. The choice was often 3/n

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@vanessahistory

9 years

German Twitter user: "140 characters? That's barely enough for two words..." #GottaLoveCompoundNouns #GermanProblems

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@vanessahistory

6 years

I'm reading about postwar economic governance and it is striking how obsessed contemporaries were with commodities, commodity agreements, and trade. Economic historians have made us believe it was all about currencies, capital movements, and monetary politics #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Safe deposits and accounts at Credit Suisse belonging to Franz von Papen, Hjalmar Schacht, as reported by banks in the context of their self-assessment (wcpgw) regarding the scope of German assets in Switzerland in 1945 #OffshoreNazis

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@vanessahistory

5 years

At this point, we are beyond airing contrarian hot takes (which is annoying and unnecessary enough), and it's just a massive embarrassment to be publishing stuff like this, @TheAtlantic

Yascha Mounk

@Yascha_Mounk

5 years

No, Evo Morales' resignation is not a coup; it is one of the few big victories democracy has won in recent years. Both leftist dictators, like Venezuela's Maduro, and far-right populists, like Hungary’s Orbán, should be terrified by it. Me @TheAtlantic .

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5 years

When you can't remember where you read something and thus can't properly reference and use it but you're Fernand Braudel and so it doesn't really matter #twitterstorians #capitalism

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@vanessahistory

4 months

. @madeline_woker ’s fab presentation @ Past and Future of Global Tax Justice conference, organized by her and @liceP1 . Look out for her terrific forthcoming piece on ‘The tax haven that wasn’t’ in P and P, why the French empire never generated tax havens like the British Empire

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@vanessahistory

6 years

A Nudge From Hell this fall at HLS

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6 years

#AmWriting piece on history of Bretton Woods institutions and beginning to think the fact that so much of its history is written by what you could call monetary historians has led to incredibly narrow&hind-sighted understanding of origins, scope, implementation #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

3 years

I don't think Americans have woken up to the threat posed by Delta in the weeks and months to come, even in highly vaxxed areas and communities. That's the view from the UK at least :-(

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Reminder: Leverhulme lecture tomorrow at 5:30pm GMT, on 'Tax Avoidance at Sea: Runaway Flags, Tax Havens, and Precarious Labor, 1920s-1970s', in which I will talk about empire as a reservoir of precarity and evasion #offshore #taxhavens Zoom link:

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@vanessahistory

5 years

I salute you, headline editor: Purple-Haired Lesbian Goddess Flattens France Like a Crepe #noughsaid #USAvFRA #WomensWorldCup2019

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@vanessahistory

2 years

So honored to receive @maxplanckpress @AvHStiftung 's new Medal for my research on the history of the offshore economy. Covid-induced loss of sabbatical still puts me behind schedule but this is a much-needed boost. Congrats to the other award recipients!

Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for studies on censorship and disinformation

The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2022 goes to political scientist Margaret Roberts from the University of California San Diego. In her research, she has uncovered how the Chinese state uses...

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@vanessahistory

1 year

Poking at materials for new book project while I should really be writing up the current one 😬🙄. But nice to be back after more than three years ☺️

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@vanessahistory

6 years

For the second year, @amazon not paying a single cent of taxes on its record 11.2bn profits. We need a strategy against corporate tax avoidance and profit shifting to #taxhavens . Trump's joke of a #taxreform making it worse. It's theft. #twitterstorians

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7 years

I want to be #spanked with the American Historical Review, possibly Past and Present #confessions #naughtyhistorians #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Mapping The Year Women Became Eligible to Vote #twitterstorians #WomensRights #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensDay

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@vanessahistory

2 years

Ready and excited for first academic workshop in person since Feb 2022! 👩‍🎓👩🏻‍💻🙋🏻‍♀️🤓😀

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5 years

Today in lecture I referred to the Bay Street Boys (group of white oligarchs who controlled Bahamas politics&tax haven business ca 50s, 60s) as the Back Street Boys 🙄 #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

6 years

Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian statesman, delegate to League of Nation’s Assembly in 1921, advocate against US occupation of Haiti in the 1920s #twitterstorians #LeagueofNations

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@vanessahistory

3 months

Started digging into this and can’t put it down! 💰💵🏝️🌎🪐🛰️🛳️ (yeah, it’s all in there)

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@vanessahistory

4 years

Late to this terrific review of Jairus Banaji's new history of commercial capitalism by @_TimBarker but enjoying it all the more #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

4 years

In the 1950s&60s, #Empire functioned as a #taxhaven of sorts w v low rates on settlers, officials, businessmen, who upon decolonization were reluctant to pay high taxes in metropole and instead sent liquidated assets and funds to CH, Bahamas, Channel Isl etc #twitterstorians

Past and Present

@PastPresentSoc

4 years

New on advanced access: "‘Funk Money’: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event" by @vanessahistory @UCBHistory #econhist #socialhistory #culturalhistory #globalhist #imphist #twitterstorians

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6 years

Since this is essentially all that’s going to be available in the UK as of April (plus a few parsnips here and there) I suggest Berkeley Bowl might rename this the #brexit section #marmite #mintsauce #HPSauce

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@vanessahistory

5 years

This actually happened. #taxhavens #taxjustice #inequality #offshore #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

5 years

Money cart for transporting coins within Amsterdam's Wisselbank, set up 1609, helping merchants with foreign currency exchange and deposits, as center of banking innovation moved from Italy to northern Europe/Dutch Republic, Sweden, England #banking #modernmoney #twitterstorians

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@vanessahistory

2 years

@monicaMedHist @Theresa_Chapple I like that, and that they are concerned about the "unequal impact" of waiting for hospitalizations to rise, should be considered everywhere

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Super thrilled to be co-organizing this workshop @TheNACBS with @TehilaSasson this fall! Send us your proposals! #capitalism #twitterstorians

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@TheNACBS

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CFP: Histories of Capitalism Workshop at the 2019 @TheNACBS conference in Vancouver organized by @TehilaSasson and @vanessahistory . Deadline submission March 15th.

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

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My heart is breaking for #CA & the Bay Area. Most scary: worst of fire season has, in past years, been much later, in Oct/Nov. We're months away from rain. Every year seems worse than the previous. Periods of polluted, unbreathable, unsafe air are the new norm #ClimateEmergency

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

4 years

European Wars, expansion,& resistance "forced and enabled a homogenization of forms of government around the constitutional norm": on Linda Colley's global history of constitutions, or "congeries of empire&nation-building" w shoutout to a book I once wrote

How the writing of constitutions was crucial to modern nation building

To reverse Clausewitz, constitutions were the continuation of war by other means. They were, Linda Colley proposes in The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen, a “political technology” taken up, like artillery...

www.the-tls.co.uk

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

6 years

As I argued on colonial origins of #offshore & #taxhavens : , #decolonization was a financial event. In early 60s, BITCO, important Bahamian trust company was seeing uptick in funds from #Kenya , #Rhodesia , where Europeans now worried about their assets

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

4 years

Today's #offshore tidbit: prior to Liberia&Panama's takeoff as shipping tax havens for flags of convenience ships, for a brief period ca 1944-47 Mandate Palestine served as a FoC registry where esp Greek owners transferred ships due to non-existing labor laws&presumably low taxes

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

6 years

Reading ⁦ @PeterGatrell ⁩’s Making of the Modern Refugee to write my lectures on refugees, intl law, and intl organizations. Such a wonderful, helpful book! #twitterstorians #refugees #themoderncondition

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

6 years

I wonder who in 1948 would be wanting to move gold to places like Argentina, Turkey, and Tangier with the help of Swiss banks? 🤔🤔🤔👀👀👀 #twitterstorians #taxhavens #OffshoringNazism

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

6 years

Genuinely thrilled to finalize mostly new, partly revised syllabus on hist of intl organizations, intl law, intl movements for #Berkeley u'grads. If there is anything esp recent you find super exciting both for lecture writing&assigning, please shoot! #teaching #twitterstorians

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

6 years

I open Twitter, occasionally Facebook, but haven't read the NYTimes or WaPo over the past 2 months or so. The NYT in particular has just been so disgusting, I couldn't take it. When twitter signals important breaking news I'll check momentarily but that's it. It has been GREAT!

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

4 years

What a nice surprise! #taxhavens #offshore

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@ObserveIR

4 years

Top #History Papers in 2020 1) End of Empires & Expansion of Tax Havens ( @PastPresentSoc ) 2) The Four Black Deaths ( @AmHistReview ) 3) Maximator: European SIGINT Cooperation ( @IntelNatSecJnl ) 4) Slave Hounds & Abolition in the Americas 5) Aztecs Abroad

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vanessa ogle

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5 years

The #Sacklerfamily used #Swiss banks to hide wealth offshore as it was facing litigation. As @nils_gilman put it: just treat them like any other criminal #drug #cartel , seize all their assets, set up a fund to help the victims of the #OpioidEpidemic

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

3 years

🤮 It points to a broader issue that's part of the problem: the cult of the 'brilliant' (mostly white male) scholar who has 'fathered' generations of students now holding positions of influence. I've always been appalled by and suspicious of this sort of cult, often illustrated..

@PriyamvadaGopal

3 years

Let me share a quotation from one of the signatories of the Chronicle of HE support letter. When I first raised issue of Comaroff on social media, he wrote to me thusly: 'John is not a harasser, more a gentle seducer.' So, no, they didn't sign without knowing. Not all of them

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

4 years

Conclusion: looking at #decolonization as a series of economic and financial events opens up a global perspective on the end of empires that leaves much exciting work to do in a wide and diverse set of sub-contexts. I hope you'll have fun thinking with this! End.

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

3 years

The under-taxation of capital gains is one of the greatest and under-discussed injustices of taxation in this country and many others, with big implications for inequality. This would be so important if true.

Katie Greifeld 🎃

@kgreifeld

3 years

*BIDEN TO PROPOSE CAPITAL GAINS TAX AS HIGH AS 43.4% FOR WEALTHY *CURRENT U.S. FEDERAL CAPITAL GAINS TAX RATE IS 20%

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vanessa ogle

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Lol, with abolishing capital controls in 1967&events of May 68 came a massive exodus of capital from France. An official close to PM Pompidou who received daily police briefings noticed increase in reports abt notable French citizens involved in accidents on roads leading to CH

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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

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The argument that offshore banking and tax havens somehow constituted a 'second' British Empire post-1945 to halt the decline of British banking may sound cool and appealing but is unfortunately untenable. Historians shouldn't repeat such speculative ('it appears that') claims ..

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