Triple Edge Resources

Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action — commits governments to eradicating poverty, promoting full employment and fostering social integration.

The 2030 Agenda resolution — establishes the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets; the primary framework document for the SDG era.

The foundational international human rights instrument — 30 articles establishing civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

Foundational UN human rights document — reaffirms universality, indivisibility and interdependence of human rights; establishes the Vienna Programme of Action.

Academic analysis of why some countries become democratic and others don’t — framework for understanding the political economy of the post-Soviet transition.

Sachs argues for cooperative global economics to address poverty, climate and governance failures — framework document for the SDG architecture.

DG EMPL — responsible for EU employment policy, social inclusion, social dialogue and the European Social Fund. Publishes the Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) annual review.

Inside account of HSBC’s $1.9bn fine for laundering Mexican cartel money — documents why no banker was prosecuted and the UK Treasury’s intervention to prevent indictments.

Primary source transcript of the Thatcher Woman’s Own interview containing the notorious “no such thing as society” formulation — the ideological cornerstone of the Reagan-Thatcher deregulation era.

Opinion piece directly addressing the Reagan-Thatcher era shift — names Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand as ideological architects of the “greed is good” doctrine and interrogates its legacy.

RTE report on a record fine imposed on PricewaterhouseCoopers for audit failures — early documented case of Big Four regulatory sanction.

Guardian opinion piece arguing the Big Four’s structural conflicts of interest are irresolvable without nationalisation — published after Carillion collapse.

Blueprint for New Public Management — the intellectual framework behind the privatisation and outsourcing wave of the 1990s that hollowed Western public services.

Reich argues the market is not a natural phenomenon but a political construct — rules are written by those with power to benefit those with power.

Accessible demolition of free market orthodoxy — each chapter dismantles a received truth about capitalism and its supposed benefits.

Argues the state has been the primary driver of innovation and risk-taking in modern economies — directly challenges the ideological basis for privatisation and deregulation.

Challenges the economic narrative of value creation — argues financial sector extracts rather than creates value, with implications for how corporate governance is assessed.

Argues that contemporary capitalism is not free market failure but a designed system of corporate extraction — relevant to the “greed economy” dossier strand.

Investigation into corporate tax avoidance in Britain — documents HMRC’s systematic failure to enforce tax law against major corporations and their advisers.

History of how the accountancy profession captured corporate governance — documents the Big Four’s role in legitimising tax avoidance and financial misconduct.

Trump administration withdrawal from the UN Global Compact on Migration negotiations — the first of a series of multilateral exits that characterised the first and second Trump terms.

Trump’s second-term executive orders withdrawing the US from WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement on Day 1 — documents the systematic US withdrawal from multilateral governance architecture.

US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council in June 2018 — the Trump administration cited bias against Israel and structural failures. Documents America’s episodic engagement with multilateral human rights mechanisms.

Documents the US pattern of withdrawing from UNESCO — first in 1984 (Reagan), returning 2003 (Bush), withdrawing again 2017 (Trump), rejoining 2023 (Biden). Illustrates the instrumental US relationship with multilateralism.