by Brooke Harrington | Feb 29, 2016 | Elites & Oligarchs
2016, Aeon Magazine This article examines the unusually close relationship between wealth managers and their clients–a form of elite service almost unique in its intensity. Keywords: wealth management, professions, elites, inequality
by Brooke Harrington | Nov 11, 2015 | Other
2015, The Atlantic In Denmark, my neighbor and my pharmacist both board planes on Thanksgiving Day and fly eight hours to New York just to shop American Black Friday sales. Our holiday has become an international spectacle, like the running of the bulls for shoppers....
by Brooke Harrington | Oct 29, 2015 | Elites & Oligarchs, Offshore Finance
2015, The Atlantic A sociologist realized that if she were ever going to understand global inequality she would have to become one of the people who helps create it. So she trained to become a wealth manager to the ultra-rich. Keywords: elites, offshore finance,...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2015 | Elites & Inequality
2015, Journal of Professions and Organization, 2 (2): 103-121. This study links theories of relationality and institutional change to deepen understanding of professionals’ role in globalization. In previous institutional research, it has been conventional to treat...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2015 | Methodology
2015, Pp. 134-142 in Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research, Kim Elsbach and Roderick Kramer (Eds.), Routledge. This chapter considers the practice of “immersion ethnography” in terms of its contributions to knowledge, as well as its demands and...
