by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2017 | Elites & Inequality
2017, Journal of Professions and Organization, 4: 282-301. This paper reports findings from an 8-year study of the embodiment, acquisition, and consequences of habitus in the wealth management profession. The study contributes in three ways to the ongoing effort to...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2017 | Methodology
2017, Pp. 39-49 in Professional Networks in Transnational Governance, Leonard Seabrooke and Lasse Folke Henriksen (Eds.), Cambridge University Press. Reflections on the special challenges of studying professionals when conducting ethnographies of elites.
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 | 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,...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2015 | Methodology
2015, Pp. 134-142 in Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research, Kim Elsbach and Roderick Kramer (Eds.), Routledge. This chapter considers the practice of “immersion ethnography” in terms of its contributions to knowledge, as well as its demands and...
