This course will be in two parts. In the first part we look at corporations and how they have developed during the course of history from being a way of promoting the societies that helped create them to the present situation where they are widely seen as far too powerful and guilty of using this power for their own ends. An example of the latter is the use of offshore finance to minimize the tax they pay, and in the second part we will look at how that practice developed. No previous knowledge of economics is required.