The MANTA-7: How Seven Tech Giants Became Bigger Than Nations democracychallenged.com/2025/11/12/t...

The Politics of the AI Profit Mirage democracychallenged.com/2025/11/12/t...

The Economics of War: How the Global Arms Trade Turns Conflict Into Profit democracychallenged.com/2025/11/07/t...

Liberalism Collapsed Under the Weight of Its Own Contradictions democracychallenged.com/2025/10/17/l...

Is the National Economy Too Small to Study? Regan and Blyth argue that Growth Model research in Comparative Political Economy is ontologically biased towards the national level.Their solution? Zoom in on the city-regional level. Full article: doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf003 #SER @OxfordJournals

The '25 #Nobel in #Economics: Innovation drives growth through creative destruction. Today, #innovation seems less about destroying the old - and more about accumulating power within the same firms. tinyurl.com/4v8hftjr

Profits, Taxes and the Accumulation of Billionaire Wealth democracychallenged.com/2025/10/09/p...

Why taxing corporate profits isn’t just about revenue — it’s about counter-power. Think of it as antitrust by other means: clipping the wings of monopolies before their rents harden into dynastic wealth and political dominance. democracychallenged.com/2025/09/22/t...

#Intangible #Capitalism: How Accounting Turns Licences Into Assets democracychallenged.com/2025/09/12/i...

The era of #tax arbitrage has narrowed. #Tariffs and rules of origin are now doing the work of industrial policy. For #Ireland, the challenge is ensuring its #pharma sector remains more than a paper hub in the eyes of both #Washington and the #OECD. democracychallenged.com/2025/08/29/w...

The age of neoliberal hands-off economics is giving way to state-led tech geopolitics. Silicon Sovereignty: Industrial Policy and the Post-Neoliberal Turn democracychallenged.com/2025/08/28/s...

Corporate profits in the US are more concentrated than ever. These figures (see in the blog post) show a structural shift: competition is giving way to #oligopoly #capitalism. What does this mean for policy, #taxation, and #democracy? democracychallenged.com/2025/07/24/w...

We are delighted to share that @ucdlibrary.bsky.social have ingested a new collection into the Repository - Democracy Challenged, an @erc.europa.eu funded project led by @aidanregan.bsky.social. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

We are very happy that our project got added to @dri.ie. Browse our repository here: repository.dri.ie/catalog/0v83... Read the DRI's post about us: tinyurl.com/3fhs6pwv

The G7’s Corporate Tax Escape Hatch: Fuelling Inequality and Killing Trust in Democracy democracychallenged.com/2025/07/03/t...

Reminder: Today at 4pm CET (3pm Irish time) @aidanregan.bsky.social will moderate this virtual session for the 2025 @sasemeeting.bsky.social conference.

Jeff #Bezos is throwing a $40M wedding—but the real story is how #Amazon made $3.6T (2014–2024) and paid just 9% U.S. #tax on $197B profit. IP tricks, transfer pricing, and tax laws made him rich - and let him stay that way. tinyurl.com/yw7f6xef

Tesla’s Tax Machine: How Musk’s Empire Grows While U.S. Revenues Shrink democracychallenged.com/2025/06/17/t...

Recent the @economist.com piece highlights insights from @aidanregan.bsky.social on Ireland's multinational profits vs. real economic activity. Worth reading both: Economist article 👉 tinyurl.com/yv9r2wk3 Aidan’s post 👉 tinyurl.com/347b4mhw

The Billion-Dollar Battle Over IP and Tax Power democracychallenged.com/2025/06/13/t...

Save the date! @aidanregan.bsky.social will moderate a round table discussion at this year's @sasemeeting.bsky.social conference. Participation is possible online.

Repost due to typo: The pharma industry is a cornerstone of EU-US trade — and Ireland plays a key role at the heart of it. 🇪🇺🇺🇸💊🇮🇪 Vanishing Act: Strip Out Pharma and Ireland, and Over 40% of the EU’s U.S. Trade Surplus Disappears democracychallenged.com/2025/05/29/v... #Trade #Pharma #Ireland

We’ve written a lot about intangible assets in our case studies. Time to step back and ask: what makes intangibles special - and how are they reshaping modern capitalism? A Primer on Intangible Capital - What’s There to Know? @linusze.bsky.social democracychallenged.com/2025/05/26/a...

The Mirage of Substance: The Legal Scaffolding Behind Ireland’s Corporate Tax Boom democracychallenged.com/2025/05/19/t...

Ireland’s Phantom Prosperity: The GDP Mirage and the Real Economy democracychallenged.com/2025/05/14/i...

From Brave New World to #Apple vs. #Brussels: How Media Fragmentation Shapes Our Reality New blog post by Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez, Lakshmi Menon and @aidanregan.bsky.social. They unpack the reactions sparked by last year’s landmark #tax ruling. democracychallenged.com/2025/05/13/f...

Check out the article our team's Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez recently published in the European Journal of Political Economy. "Capital vs. labour: The effect of income sources on attitudes toward the top 1 percent" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EJPE #politicaleconomy #inequality

New article by @aidanregan.bsky.social in @businesspost.bsky.social examining Ireland's tax model and the pivotal role of intellectual property in its increasingly precarious economic strategy. www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

We’re thrilled that the @businesspost.bsky.social has published a major investigation based on findings from our @erc.europa.eu-funded project at @ucddublin.bsky.social. It shines a spotlight on how multinationals shift profits through Ireland. A thread👇 democracychallenged.com/2025/05/06/o...

Our analysis in cooperation with the @businesspost.bsky.social is now available online and in print.

One #IntellectualProperty Asset, Two Balance Sheets: How #VMware Engineered Profits into Losses democracychallenged.com/2025/04/25/o...

Interested in tax avoidance (by firms, not how-to-do-it 😑) and the connection to the franchise economy? uva.theopenscholar.com/files/docume... The democracy challenged project blog democracychallenged.com/blog/ Is now releasing punchy company by company analyses. @democracychall.bsky.social

From 2014 to 2024, #AbbVie reported $115.7 billion in foreign profits while booking $37.6 billion in U.S. losses. The result? An average foreign effective #tax rate of just 2.9%. democracychallenged.com/2025/04/24/h...

How #AbbVie Uses Allergan to Wash Away Global Profits democracychallenged.com/2025/04/15/h...

Last month, we hosted the even 'Profit Shifting in Ireland and Europe: Where do we stand?' together with the @taxobservatory.bsky.social. If you did not have a chance to participate or want to rewatch the insightful debate, the videos are now online on the EUTO's Youtube channel:

Too Much from Too Few: The Concentration Risk in Ireland’s Tax Model democracychallenged.com/2025/04/14/t...

#Merck’s Global Tax Circuit: How #Intangibles Power Cross-Border Profit Shifting democracychallenged.com/2025/04/10/m...

#Medtronic ’s Invisible Empire: How a U.S. Giant Rewired Itself Through Ireland democracychallenged.com/2025/04/10/m...

#Johnson & Johnson made $36B in pre-tax profit last year — $26.7B outside the US — yet paid just 13.5% tax on its foreign income. The secret? 12,000+ #patents held in #Ireland, where cost-sharing and clever structuring turn global IP into local #tax breaks. democracychallenged.com/2025/04/10/j...

Chartered by Legal Code: How the #TCJA Redefined Global Profit Shifting democracychallenged.com/2025/04/10/c...

#Pfizer 's Disappearing Act: How the #Pharma Giant Shifts Profits Overseas to Dodge U.S. Taxes democracychallenged.com/2025/04/07/p...

#Pfizer doesn’t just engineer drugs. It engineers profits. An investigation into how the #pharma giant uses #Ireland, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg to move billions #offshore, cut its #tax bill, and keep its empire humming. democracychallenged.com/2025/04/03/p...

💊 Inside AbbVie’s Irish #Tax Engine: How One #Pharma Giant Shifts Billions #Offshore Through IP, Intangibles, and Invisible Entities 🇮🇪📉 democracychallenged.com/2025/03/27/a...

How #Microsoft turned #Ireland into a €120B global #profit-shifting hub. democracychallenged.com/2025/03/26/h...

How #Microsoft shifted billions through #Ireland and used its IP to slash #taxes — and why the #IRS wants $28.9 billion back. democracychallenged.com/2025/03/25/h...

The Double-Edged Sword of American Multinationals and the EU’s trade war dilemma democracychallenged.com/2025/03/24/t...

In 2017, an Irish subsidiary of the #CocaCola Company saw its intangible assets skyrocket from $87M to $25.7B, a staggering 29,250% increase! tinyurl.com/yfsafway #ireland #tax #profitshifting

Article by our team's Aidan Regan and Rafael Quintero Godinez: www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi... #tesla #musk

#Tesla's profits yield minimal US taxes via loopholes and offshore tactics. This funds ideological projects and far-right alliances in Europe. New blog post: #Musk’s War Chest: Tesla’s Tax Strategy and the Weaponisation of #Wealth democracychallenged.com/2025/02/28/m...

New blog post by @aidanregan.bsky.social "How Johnson & Johnson shifts profits through Ireland, inflating the trade surplus while eroding the US tax base. 🇮🇪 🇺🇲 A blog post on Big Pharma's global tax-avoiding wealth chains." #tax #pharma #ireland democracychallenged.com/2025/02/20/j...