by Brooke Harrington | Mar 10, 2016 | Elites & Inequality
2017, Socio-Economic Review, 15 (1): 31-63. This article identifies trusts as a legal structure associated with the global spread of financialization. Although trusts originated in Medieval England, they have acquired a new significance in contemporary finance by...
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...
