Books

Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

2024, W.W. Norton

“You cannot understand the world of the super-rich without reading Brooke Harrington. Literary, intrepid, and utterly original, she writes with insight and humor. Offshore is a portrait of plutocracy that is drawn not from statistics but from real-world encounters that the world almost never sees.”
– Evan Osnos New Yorker staff writer and author of Wildland

Capital without Borders:
Wealth Managers & the One Percent

2016, Harvard University Press

“Offers a timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth…[It] ought to keep wealth managers awake at night… and engage in the national discourse on inequality that has been gathering momentum since Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.”
—Aifric Campbell, Wall Street Journal

Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating

2009, Stanford University Press

“This book is not only very interesting, it is one that should be read by all those who are interested in achieving a better understanding of human behavior, regardless of context.”
—Richard Klimoski, Administrative Science Quarterly

Pop Finance: Investment Clubs & the New Investor Populism

2008, Princeton University Press

“A brilliant idea here: to study investment clubs up close, to observe the transmission of ideas and values at an investor’s social nexus. The book provides deep insights into the mind of the market.”
—Robert J. Shiller, Nobel laureate in Economics, author of Irrational Exuberance and Animal Spirits