Offshore Finance and Global Governance: Disciplining the Tax Nomad
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
I stumbled across the term ‘nomad millionaire’ in Ronan Palan’s 2003 book on The Offshore World. In this opportune text, Vlcek uses this increasingly maligned term to describe a growing and assorted cluster of individuals and firms who seek to minimise, and possibly completely avoid and stamp out, their tax obligations among multiple jurisdictions; leaving most of us, taxpaying residents, to foot the bill of massive public debt. The most powerful asset in their arsenal is not simply the significant wealth and financial capital that these persons (real or corporate) have amassed, and its political leverage, but the mobility with which they graft their assets, enabling a strategic determination of when and where to place which portion of their money and for how long. The mobility of their liquid resources, and at times of themselves, is so extensive that it effectively lacks domicile. Nomadism has taken mobility to a higher level. And globalisation and the digital economy (and now crypto-currencies?) have given bold wings to tax minimisation.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it