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a proposed tax on international financial transactions, especially speculative currency exchange transactions; suggested by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate economist James Tobin


Capital controls are taxes, and differ from exchange controls. The latter place limits on the amount of a nation’s currency that can be taken abroad. Instead, the financial transaction tax or Tobin tax is a form of capital control, a tax on and ‘sand in the wheels’ of capital flows.

idk if she adequately clarified the diff tbh (seems like it's a case of limits vs taxes, which is not what the italicizing implies)

—p.146 Subordinating Finance, Restoring Democracy (131) by Ann Pettifor
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6 years, 7 months ago