Brooke Harrington's guest appearances

Brooke Harrington

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Restoration Centres

Not Me, but YOU

Jason Moore

James Buchanan

Randy Shaw

John Kelly

Raj Patel

Ryan Murphy

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

David Harvey

Louis Hyman

Leigh Claire La Berge

Jim Crow

Jason Watson

Josh Davis

Steve Roberts

Nancy MacLean

OwlTail

The modern world is large and interconnected, and there are a lot of systems that might be important to how it functions but about which most people are barely aware. One of these is the offshore wealth management network, which wealthy individuals can use both legitimately (to invest and plan their money) and less legitimately (to avoid taxation or hide questionable practices generally). Brooke Harrington is a sociologist who has studied offshore wealth management, including by training to be one. In a recent paper, she and colleagues analyze networks of offshore wealth managers as a complex system, uncovering power-law behavior and interesting nation-dependent network structures.Web site with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/05/22/237-brooke-harrington-on-offshore-wealth-as-a-complex-system/Support Mindscape on Patreon.Brooke Harrington received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She is currently a professor of sociology at Dartmouth College. Among her awards are the IPM Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She is the author of Capital Without Borders: Wealth Management and the One Percent.Web siteDartmouth web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsAmazon author pageWikipediaTwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The modern world is large and interconnected, and there are a lot of systems that might be important to how it functions but about which most people are barely aware. One of these is the offshore wealth management network, which wealthy individuals can use both legitimately (to invest and plan their money) and less legitimately (to avoid taxation or hide questionable practices generally). Brooke Harrington is a sociologist who has studied offshore wealth management, including by training to be one. In <a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/3/pgad051/7059318?login=false" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">a recent paper</a>, she and colleagues analyze networks of offshore wealth managers as a complex system, uncovering power-law behavior and interesting nation-dependent network structures.Web site with transcript: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/05/22/237-brooke-harrington-on-offshore-wealth-as-a-complex-system/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/05/22/237-brooke-harrington-on-offshore-wealth-as-a-complex-system/</a>Support Mindscape on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.Brooke Harrington received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She is currently a professor of sociology at Dartmouth College. Among her awards are the IPM Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She is the author of <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244771" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Capital Without Borders: Wealth Management and the One Percent</a>.<ul><li><a href="https://works.bepress.com/brooke_harrington/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Web site</a></li><li><a href="https://sociology.dartmouth.edu/people/brooke-harrington" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Dartmouth web page</a></li><li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AUhxCTIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Google Scholar publications</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brooke-Harrington/author/B001JSJOWW" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon author page</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Harrington" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/EBHarrington" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li></ul> See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System

Brooke Harrington lead us in communion this Sunday. May you be bless by it.

Brooke Harrington lead us in communion this Sunday. May you be bless by it.

Communion message 16 Jan 2022 Brooke Harrington

In April, the high volume leak of the  Panama Papers revealed an often unseen world of money and power. The leak of 11.5 million files came from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which helps facilitate movement of money across accounts and borders, frequently with the goal of evading taxation and legal judgments. The leak placed the financial dealings of global celebrities and politicians, including Simon Cowell and Pedro Almodovar, under scrutiny.  Vladimir Putin, though unnamed in the leak was connected to upwards of $2 billion of assets. And the revelations provoked such controversy for the Prime Minister of Iceland that he was forced to resign. While the celebrity names got a good deal of the headlines, firms like Mossack Fonseca are instrumental to the creation of offshore tax havens. Our guest today, Brooke Harrington, set out to understand this world and the people who make it possible. She studied to become a wealth manager, so as to learn about the world of the global elite and how this labor force has contributed to global inequality. This study took her to 18 countries. And it offers a rare insight into the processes by which a small set of people control a good deal of the world’s assets. Like the Panama Papers, this research documents a world that is, as Brooke puts it, technically legal, but socially illegitimate.  Brooke Harrington is Associate Professor of Sociology at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. You can find out more about  Capital without Borders here.

In April, the high volume leak of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-panama-papers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Panama Papers</a> revealed an often unseen world of money and power. The leak of 11.5 million files came from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which helps facilitate movement of money across accounts and borders, frequently with the goal of evading taxation and legal judgments. The leak placed the financial dealings of global celebrities and politicians, including Simon Cowell and Pedro Almodovar, under scrutiny. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Vladimir Putin, though unnamed in the leak was connected to upwards of $2 billion of assets.</a> And the revelations provoked such controversy for the Prime Minister of Iceland that he was forced to resign. While the celebrity names got a good deal of the headlines, firms like Mossack Fonseca are instrumental to the creation of offshore tax havens. Our guest today, <a href="https://works.bepress.com/brooke_harrington/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brooke Harrington</a>, set out to understand this world and the people who make it possible. She studied to become a wealth manager, so as to learn about the world of the global elite and how this labor force has contributed to global inequality. This study took her to 18 countries. And it offers a rare insight into the processes by which a small set of people control a good deal of the world’s assets. Like the Panama Papers, this research documents a world that is, as Brooke puts it, technically legal, but socially illegitimate. <a href="http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-business-and-politics/staff/bhdbp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Brooke Harrington</a> is Associate Professor of Sociology at <a href="http://www.cbs.dk/en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Copenhagen Business School</a>, Denmark. You can find out more about <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674743809&amp;content=bios" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Capital without Borders here.</a>

Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent