Weird Economy

Europe's economy gets strange around borders, tiny countries, and old deals that still decide who pays what. Monaco hasn't collected personal income tax from its residents since 1869. Livigno, an Italian ski town, is a duty-free zone because enforcing customs there was judged too expensive, and Büsingen is a German town that pays in Swiss francs because it's surrounded by Switzerland. Weird Economy covers the tax quirks, microstate business models, cross-border workers, and odd incentives behind Europe's geographic and political weirdness. Sometimes the answer is sensible. Sometimes somebody signed one extremely specific agreement generations ago and everyone is still living with it.