by Brooke Harrington | May 26, 2023 | Offshore System
2023, PNAS Nexus, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/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...
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...
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...
