by Brooke Harrington | Mar 30, 2022 | Elites & Oligarchs
2022, The Atlantic Sanctions skeptics miss the powerful impact of stigma on elites: respect and inclusion have been the lifeblood of Russian oligarchs’ successful political influence operations in the West; stigmatizing them through exclusion and shame strips them of...
by Brooke Harrington | Mar 26, 2022 | Tax & Policy
2022, Economia Politica, 40: 139 – 152; with Alice Guerra. This research note analyzes the role of culture on individuals’ tax compliance by focusing on regional differences within a single country: Italy. Southern Italy has long been a focus of research...
by Brooke Harrington | Oct 29, 2021 | Elites & Oligarchs, Offshore Finance
2021, New York Times The Pandora Papers leak of offshore financial data doesn’t just expose the “lifestyles of the rich and famous:” it’s a damning indictment of corruption at the highest levels of government and corporate leadership worldwide. But there is reason for...
by Brooke Harrington | Oct 9, 2021 | Elites & Oligarchs, Offshore Finance
2021, Washington Post For the wealthiest people in the world, offshore finance provides a way to escape the rule of law—not just taxes, but any laws they find inconvenient. This is why the Pandora Papers includes so many cases of shell companies, trusts and...
by Brooke Harrington | Sep 30, 2021 | Elites & Inequality
2021, Sociologica, 15 (2): 143 – 152. What relevance does an early twentieth-century thinker like Simmel have for the contemporary sociology of wealth? This paper suggests that Simmel’s classic work on the secret and secret societies is embedded but...
