[Wikimedia-l] Global Economic Map

[Alex Peek]

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 <alexpeek1 at gmail.com> 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?
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> On 8 April 2013 14:57, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave at culture-libre.org>wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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