by Brooke Harrington | Aug 24, 2026 | Offshore Finance, Other
2026, The Economist Why recent attacks on Sociology as left-wing activism are misplaced. Describing my own research and how I teach Introduction to Sociology, I argue that the study of inequality (our focus) is shared by all the social sciences: we differ mainly in...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 19, 2024 | Offshore Finance
2024, The Atlantic How a now-obscure financier turned the Bahamas into a tax haven—and created a cornerstone of global plutocracy. Keywords: Bahamas, offshore finance, colonialism, Wallace Groves
by Brooke Harrington | May 29, 2022 | Elites & Oligarchs, Offshore Finance
2022, Washington Post Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine produced an unexpected side effect: leading nations in the offshore financial system became willing to do the impossible by tearing down their own wall of secrecy. They can do it again. Keywords: offshore...
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 | 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,...
