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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I: The General Economic Rationale for Offshore Finance Centre
Development
1. The Importance of National Friction Structures and Distortions Therein
and the International Politico-economic Friction Matrix
2. The Emergence of the International 'Intermediate' Economy and the
Semi-peripheral Global Secondary Trading System
3. The Onshore Exercise of 'Countervailing' Power to Preempt or Limit the
Extent of Offshore Appropriation of Invisible Trade Activities
4. The Competitive Power of Offshore States and the Art of International
Economic 'Frictioneering'
Part II: A Regional Case Study of the Development of the British Isle
Offshore Finance Centres
1. The Effective Constitutional Parameters of Politico-fiscal Sovereignty
of the British Isle Centres
2. UK Monetary Union and the Sterling 'Currency Bond'
3. The Development of Jersey as the British Isle Offshore Banking Centre
1955-78
4. The Diversified Development of Guernsey 1960-78
5. The Isle of Man and the Problem of Offshore Take-Off 1961-78
6. The Drive to 'Independent' Industrial Maturity since 1979
Part III: The Global Pattern of Offshore Finance Centre Development Since
1970
1. The Development Decade of the 1970s: A Global Review of the Offshore
Transformation of Tax Haven Centres
2. The Restructuring of the International Friction Matrix in the 1980s
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