by Brooke Harrington | May 26, 2023 | Offshore Finance
2023, PNAS Nexus, DOI: 2 (3): pgad051; with Herbert Chang, Feng Fu & Daniel Rockmore. Following the invasion of Ukraine, the US, UK, and EU governments–among others–sanctioned oligarchs close to Putin. This approach has come under scrutiny, as evidence has emerged...
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 largely...
by Brooke Harrington | Mar 10, 2016 | Elites & Inequality
2017, Socio-Economic Review, 15 (1): 31-63. This article identifies trusts as a legal structure associated with the global spread of financialization. Although trusts originated in Medieval England, they have acquired a new significance in contemporary finance by...
