by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Financial Fraud
2012, Pp. 393-410 in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance, Karin Knorr-Cetina and Alex Preda (Eds.), Oxford University Press. If there is an Urtext for the sociology of fraud, it is surely Herman Melville’s 1857 novel “The Confidence Man . This...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Elites & Inequality
2012, Sociological Forum, 27 (4): 825-846. This article offers a new perspective on the connection between socioeconomic inequality and occupations by examining the impact of trust and estate planners on global wealth stratification. While many studies treat the...
by Brooke Harrington | Nov 18, 2008 | Other
2008, Philadelphia Inquirer Like Dr. Frankenstein, the architects of subprime mortgages and derivatives created a monster whose complex workings they didn’t understand—one that laid waste to innocent lives. Keywords: 2008 financial crisis, subprime mortgages,...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2008 | Groups & Networks
2008, Sociologica, 1/2008: 1-20; with Gary Fine. As Fine and Harrington [2004] have argued, the relationship between individuals and the social systems which they inhabit is shaped within face-to-face groups. Early work by Habermas and others on the development of the...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2007 | Tax & Policy
2007, Pp. 308-13 in David Canon, John Coleman and Kenneth Mayer (Eds.), Faultlines: Debating the Issues in American Politics, W.W. Norton. It has become nearly axiomatic in this country to argue that everything would be better off if it were run like a business. In...
