The authors explore the stories, myths, ideologies and rhetoric surrounding concrete processes of globalization and seek to explain the parochial interests that give rise to them and the extent to which they impact globalization rather than simply describe it

I seek to explain the causes for the apparent commercialization of state sovereignty, and in particular the reasons for its association with tax havens. I argue that the conditions that gave rise to the commercial use of sovereignty as perfected by tax havens have little to do with surges in...