by Brooke Harrington | Jan 19, 2017 | Elites & Oligarchs
2017, Washington Post In 2017, incoming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet was comprised of the ultra-rich, their collective wealth dwarfing that of any other in American history. While money and privilege have been more the rule than the exception in US politics, from...
by Brooke Harrington | May 29, 2016 | Offshore Finance
2016, The Atlantic Whatever benefits might come to a country entering into the tax-haven business, it seems to be a Faustian bargain. Most are afflicted by the “finance curse,” becoming repressive, undemocratic and economically precarious. Keywords: finance curse,...
by Brooke Harrington | Apr 29, 2016 | Offshore Finance
2016, The Atlantic The Panama Papers gave many their first glimpse of the dirty secret of offshore finance: the system makes legally possible activities that many people would consider criminal. While the leak exposed opportunistic and often unethical behavior by...
by Brooke Harrington | Apr 24, 2016 | Elites & Oligarchs, Offshore Finance
2016, Politiken The ultra-rich are ultra-sensitive to criticism; the Panama Papers has caused them to lash out in anger. Keywords: Panama Papers, elites
by Brooke Harrington | Apr 23, 2016 | Financial Fraud
2016, Pp. 340-355 in The Global Financial Crisis: Hidden Factors in the Meltdown, Tassos Malliaris, Leslie Shaw and Hersh Shefrin (Eds.), Oxford University Press. This paper examines financial fraud as a manifestation of power by elites. The perspective is historical,...
