by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2014 | Financial Fraud
2014, Socio-Economic Review, 12: 186-195. Few studies have examined public response to unethical or illegal behavior by firms, despite some research on institutional investors, organized protest groups or shareholder activists. Although a robust research literature...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2013 | Financial Fraud
2013, Pp. 267-282 in Introduction to Political Sociology, Benedikte Brincker (Ed.), Gyldendal Akademisk. Most states act to protect the “safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people” against the depredations of financial crises in some or all of the following ways:...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Elites & Inequality
2012, Pp. 190-209 in Inherited Wealth, Justice & Equality, Guido Erreygers and John Cunliffe (Eds.), Routledge. This chapter will address the question: why did trusteeship become a profession in its own right after centuries as a voluntary undertaking? The...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Stock Market
2012, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 34: 231-258. This chapter examines the mass movement of Americans into investing during the 1990s as both a consequence and a cause of contested power between corporations and individuals. This movement was part of a...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Stock Market
2012, Pp. 81-98 in Emotions in Finance, Jocelyn Pixley (Ed.), Routledge. Losing money evokes a host of emotions, most of them painful. In his earliest work, Adam Smith wrote of the “embarrassment” and shame associated with financial losses, with bankruptcy being “the...
