Now 📤 Out | Open access 30 days @ World Politics

Vision 🔭 for a new political economy

- Adaptive: doesn't impose artificial mechanical assumptions on social systems
- Moral: recognizes effects of power inequalities on the way we think🧠

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Fascinating speaking to John Penrose - he explains how UK govt views corruption as 'important but not a priority' - and why the UK govt therefore needs an A-C Champion or something similar to keep it on the agenda

🌟In case you missed last week's episode #journalism investigations into corruption 🔍 Prof Liz David-Barrett and Tom Burgis

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Tonight in Manchester I’ll be talking with Grace Blakeley about her new book Vulture Capitalism and my Cuckooland. All you ever wanted to know about how the rich own the truth but were afraid to ask… Waterstones Manchester Deansgate

Still time to get a ticket:
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Job: Open Ownership is looking for an experienced data analyst to join my team to help people across the world use and learn from beneficial ownership data.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2024

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Please RT #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata

🚨📽️ The APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax and APPG on Fair Business Banking's new Economic Crime Manifesto has four pillars 🏛️

Rachel Davies Teka, Advocacy Director at Transparency International UK, explains why key policy recommendations in the Transparency pillar are much needed.

Manifesto below 👇

#Westminster #UKPolitics

Great opportunity!

🚨🐟🪝 Knowing who owns companies is important for many reasons.

Consider commercial fishing...

Open Ownership's latest briefing explains: 'illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing... generates c. $15-36bn p/a in illicit earnings, and has increased extinction threats...'

🔎Discover how corruption networks target destinations like London. Our #GI_ACE 2.0 project dives deep into this topic and many more, connecting research with real-world cases like this one. Find all of our ongoing projects on our website! tinyurl.com/5f8z9spf #anticorruption

Look fwd to this!
Great call today with 3 amazing PhD candidates in <political economy> of education who co-chair The Politics of Education Network (POLED)
Help build head of steam to break pol econ out of niche & into mainstream (education policy, funding) & unlock effectiveness & impact
Dial in!

🗣️🎧Listen to the latest podcast of the Center for the Study of Corruption’s podcast Kickback 👉🏼👉🏼Prof. Prof Liz David-Barrett speaks to Tom Burgis about his work investigating corruption across different continents

I really enjoyed reading Tom Burgis’ latest book, and here’s a taster for those who haven’t read it yet!

The book covers party donations, bribery in int business, money and reputation laundering, and lawfare

We’re on to building the infrastructure for the future of investigative journalism. Welcome to the Cloud Alliance! gfmd.info/briefings/jour…

'The bribery of Western officials by authoritarian countries should be considered just as reprehensible as the bribery of public officials in developing countries by Western corporations.'
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A really insightful blog on how and why the concept of ‘strategic corruption’ has become a useful analytical framework- with thoughts on what needs to happen.

The UK is calling for a renewed effort towards global corporate transparency and putting a few million £ towards implementation

But implementation often stops at 'a beneficial ownership registry exists'

Effective transparency needs testing, enforcement
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Tomorrow, I will be at the Ministry of Justice talking about lawfare against research on kleptocracy & then in Parliament for the launch of the cross-party APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax economic crime manifesto.

You can’t fight kleptocracy if you can’t research it.

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‘Close links between parliamentarians & the #vaping industry are concerning especially when Government is considering reforming its policies on smoking’ Rose Whiffen Transparency International UK #Lobbying #UKPolitics inews.co.uk/news/mps-pro-v…

Our Anti-Corruption & Governance Center @ CIPE takeaways from a pretty energizing & decisive #GACIF forum OECD Governance - building on the momentum at #COSP10 w/ more to come.

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Frank Brown Isabel Cane Business at OECD (BIAC) The B Team World Economic Forum Collective Action at the Basel Institute UN Office on Drugs & Crime UN Global Compact

Excited to have the hard copy of this great book by David Jancsics arrive..!

I meant every word of my blurb on the back…