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Born 1968.
EDUCATION:Stanford University, B.A. (English), 1990; Harvard University, M.A. (sociology), Ph.D. (sociology), 1999.
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Academic, scholar, author. Brown University, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, 1999-2007; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, research fellow; Copenhagen Business School, Professor of Economic Sociology, 2010-18; Dartmouth College, Professor of Economic Sociology, 2019-.
AWARDS:Received awards and grants from National Science Foundation, the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
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Elisabeth Brooke Harrington is an American academic and economic sociologist who researches and writes about diversity, immigration, globalization, inequality, wealth, finance, and social media. She was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and taught at Copenhagen Business School and Dartmouth College.
Harrington edited the 2009 Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating, an anthology of essays about the commonality of deception and lies, which humans have been doing since antiquity. Scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, and mass media researchers contributed essays on the history of deception and lying, philosophical debates, contemporary lying, stock market fraud, the fact that everyone tells at least three lies a day. In CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, D.S. Dunn commented: “This first-rate book belongs bedside and in any number of disciplinary seminars on deception.” An Internet Bookwatch contributor noted that in this “recommended” book, deception is “a psychological phenomenon that affects nearly every aspect of human life up to the modern day.”
In her 2016 book Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, Harrington writes about managers who help the world’s richest people stay rich. She took a wealth management course and interviewed experienced professionals to learn how wealth managers protect assets against taxation; the use of trusts and tax havens; dealing with creditors, heirs, and ex-spouses; and keeping wealth secret from authorities. “This work adds unique insights into the extraordinary trust between wealth managers and their rich clients,” declared M. Larudee in CHOICE.
In her book Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Harrington examines how the ultra-rich use offshore accounts and financing techniques to hide their wealth from taxation, evade campaign law and environmental laws, and threaten democracy. She researches the tools of wealth managers, reports on popular offshore islands in the Caribbean and South Pacific, explains the worsening of the economic and political inequality which can destabilize the world, and interviews dozens of wealth managers. Calling the book “illuminating,” a Kirkus Reviews critic praised Harrington’s research, saying: “she made a plan to earn wealth manager credentials so she could access them through their financial managers.”
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CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, October 2009, D. S. Dunn, review of Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating, p. 396; March 2017, M. Larudee, review of Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent.
Internet Bookwatch, July 2009, review of Deception.
Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2024, review of Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism.
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Brooke Harrington Homepage, https://brookeharrington.com/ (November 1, 2024).
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elisabeth Brooke Harrington
Born 1968 (age 55–56)
Occupation professor of economic sociology
Academic work
Notable works Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent[1]
Elisabeth Brooke Harrington[2] (born 1968[3]) is an American academic, scholar, author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College.[4]
Early life
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In 1990, Harrington earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Stanford University.[2] In 1996, Harrington earned a master's degree in sociology from Harvard University, followed by a PhD degree in sociology there in 1999.[2]
Career
From 1999 to 2007, Harrington was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brown University.[2] From 2006 to 2009, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.[2] She was a professor of economic sociology at the Copenhagen Business School from 2010 to 2018.[2]
In 2017, she faced legal difficulties with the authorities in Denmark about a visa dispute, even though she had been invited to speak as a guest lecturer to the Danish Parliament; the dispute ended eight months later when Denmark changed its laws.[5]
She is an advocate against xenophobia and for the benefits of immigration.[5]
In January 2019, she became a Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.[6]
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Harrington, Brooke (1999). "Dollars for Difference: The 'Diversity Premium' in Investing Organizations". Harvard University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
Harrington, Brooke (2007). "Capital and Community: Findings from the American Investment Craze of the 1990s". Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter. 8 (3): 19–25. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0028-4E89-8.
Harrington, Brooke (2008). Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691128320. [7][8]
Harrington, Brooke, ed. (2009). Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804756495.[9]
Harrington, Brooke (2016). Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674743809.[10][1][11]
Harrington, Brooke (2024). Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9781324064954.
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I’m an Economic Sociologist studying the offshore financial system and the professionals who run it. My research addresses inequality, both political and economic, as well as globalization and the professions.
Who creates change in markets and other financial institutions? I’m interested in how things get done–what social actors actually do in their daily lives–and how that aggregates to the macro-level of financial markets, culture and political institutions. My work intersects with the literatures of political economy, anthropology, social psychology and behavioral finance.
Since 2007, I’ve focused on the offshore financial system, which I studied from the inside after spending two years earning a wealth management credential; that was followed by six more years traveling to every region of the world, interviewing and interacting with practitioners in 18 offshore centers. The findings of my ethnographic research contribute to the literatures on inequality, political economy and the professions. The book and articles that emerged from this ongoing study are linked below.
Previously, my research examined the effects of deception and fraud in financial markets, as well as the impact of diversity on the performance and decision-making processes of investment groups..
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Brooke Harrington
Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
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Brooke Harrington
Brooke Harrington is Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College in the United States.
Her research examines the social underpinnings of finance. Her book on global wealth management, tax, and offshore banking—titled Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent—was published in September 2016 by Harvard University Press and became a best-seller, as well as winning an “Outstanding Book Award” from the American Sociological Association. Capital without Borders has been translated into Japanese, Danish, Korean and Russian. Professor Harrington’s previous books include Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and Stock Market Populism (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating (Stanford University Press, 2009), both translated into multiple languages. Her work has also been published in leading scholarly journals such as the Annual Review of Sociology, Human Relations, Family Business Review, Socio-Economic Review and Social Psychology Quarterly. Professor Harrington has consulted for major global firms, such as amazon.com and Bank of America, international organizations such as the European Parliament, the OECD, and tax agencies in Europe and Asia. In addition, her commentary has been widely published in popular press—such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and the Atlantic—and she is a frequent guest on international television and radio news, including CNN and the BBC. Professor Harrington’s work has been recognized by numerous research grants and awards, from organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association and the Russell Sage Foundation. She has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London, and is an accredited Trust and Estate Planner. Prior to joining the faculty of Dartmouth, she was a professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, as well as at Brown University in the United States. In addition, she has held visiting scholar positions at Princeton University, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the Santa Fe Institute, the Max Planck Institute (Cologne, Germany) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Professor Harrington holds a BA with honors in English Literature from Stanford University, as well as an MA and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.
Harrington, Brooke OFFSHORE Norton (NonFiction None) $22.00 9, 17 ISBN: 9781324064947
A Dartmouth sociology professor explores the complex, supersecret world of offshore finance.
When Harrington, author ofCapital Without Borders, began studying offshore finance in 2007, she found that almost no data existed about those taking advantage of the system. Knowing she could not directly access wealthy individuals herself, she made a plan to earn wealth manager credentials so she could access them through their financial managers. Through classwork and interviews with her colleagues-in-training, the author learned that the system was less a scheme for tax avoidance and more a "platform for an elite insurgency opposed to equality before the law, economic stability [and] free markets." Staying hidden is critical to the success of offshoring projects because "secrecy confers impunity." She argues that part of what makes this system so insidious is the way it has repurposed the legal and financial infrastructure of the old imperial era for the new transnational elite. These practices have in turn transformed former poor ex-colonies like the Bahamas into law-free zones where deals that support the illegal enrichment of the already wealthy can take place. At the same time, the lure of wealth and profit have brought even rich democratic countries like the U.S. (which boasts a few of the most popular offshore centers in the world) into the plutocratic wealth management game. Apart from publicly shaming the individuals who use the system, Harrington suggests that one effective way of curbing their activities is cutting the connection between the superrich and their managers. In a world where everything else can be bought, "trust is not a commodity and cannot be purchased easily from another provider." Intriguing and timely, this book will be of interest not only to academics, but to anyone seeking an understanding of the hidden forces behind global wealth inequality.
Illuminating, accessible reading.
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"Harrington, Brooke: OFFSHORE." Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2024, p. NA. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A801499697/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=4be7ee0c. Accessed 25 Sept. 2024.
Harrington, Brooke. Capital without borders: wealth managers and the one percent. Harvard, 2016. 381p index afp ISBN 9780674743809 cloth, $29.95
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In this remarkable work, Harrington (Copenhagen Business School) relays in-depth interviews with wealth managers for the ultra-rich, building on her previous publications on financial markets and fraud. Her strategy was to take a professional training course in wealth management and interview fellow students who were experienced professionals (after fully disclosing her academic position and purpose). She describes ways wealth managers protect assets against taxation, divorce proceedings, or spendthrift family members, using both trusts and tax havens--jurisdictions that offer low/no taxation and secrecy from authorities. Key related works that cover tax havens' history are Tax Havens (CH, Jul'l0, 47-6384) and Treasure Islands (St. Martin's Griffin, 2012); their role in the Latin American debt crisis, The Blood Bankers (CH, Apr'04, 41-4776); and their use in facilitating illegal or questionable activities, Capitalism's Achilles Heel (Wiley, 2005). This work adds unique insights into the extraordinary trust between wealth managers and their rich clients, as well as other nuggets of insight. Its academic writing makes it suitable for upper-division undergraduates and up; its revelations about lifestyles of the rich makes it suitable for larger public libraries. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. Upperdivision undergraduates through faculty.--M. Larudee, Visiting Associate Professor and Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Larudee, M. "Harrington, Brooke. Capital without borders: wealth managers and the one percent." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, vol. 54, no. 7, Mar. 2017, p. 1060. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A490476091/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=aabf3241. Accessed 25 Sept. 2024.
Deception: from ancient empires to Internet dating, ed. by Brooke Harrington. Stanford, 2009. 346p index afp ISBN 9780804756495, $34.95
This quirky but wonderful book has one message: lies abound. Deception is everywhere and always has been. (Guess what! The Incas doctored their accounts as recorded by their knot record system, the khipu.) Harrington (Max Planck Institute, Germany) asked an interesting array of scientists and scholars from sociology, psychology, English, computer science, and cultural and mass media studies to write reflectively on the prevarications people routinely encounter or commit on an embarrassingly frequent basis. Though few people launch phishing expeditions on the Web to part innocent others from their privacy rights (and passwords), everyone engages in what the two trenchant authors of chapter 2, Frederick Schauer and Richard Zeckhauser (both, Harvard), call paltering. To palter is not exactly to tell a bald-faced lie, but neither is it to tell the whole truth. Paltering is the act of being insincere or a tad misleading--as, for example, when academics pad their vitae by listing the same professional talk several rimes using different titles. Ouch. This first-rate book belongs bedside and in any number of disciplinary seminars on deception. Summing Up: Highly recommended. *** Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.--D. S. Dunn, Moravian College
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Dunn, D.S. "Deception: from ancient empires to Internet dating." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, vol. 47, no. 2, Oct. 2009, p. 396. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A266633288/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=8a2ca7ee. Accessed 25 Sept. 2024.
Deception
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Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating is an anthology of essays by learned scholars in branches of expertise ranging from biology and physics to archaeologists to military strategists, concerning a psychological phenomenon that affects nearly every aspect of human life up to the modern day: deception. The latest psychological research suggests that normal human beings tell at least two or three lies daily; deception also plays a critical role in the animal kingdom, both in matters of survival and reproduction. Yet despite deception's pervasive, intrinsic effect on human culture, human knowledge of it is limited--even as new tools such as the Internet have made deception more commonplace and easier to spread than ever before. Individual essays of "Deception" include "Why Most People Parse Palters, Fibs, Lies, Whoppers, and Other Deceptions Poorly", "Digital Doctoring: Can We Trust Photographs?", "Does Rumor Lie? Narrators, Trust, and the Framing of Information", "Crocodile Tears, or, Method Acting in Everyday Life", "The Pleasures of Lying", and many more. An enthusiastically recommended and much-needed addition to psychology collections. "On the positive side, the ability suspend disbelief is part of the enjoyment of art and many leisure activities... In our personal lives, we may also collude with liars who tell us what we want to believe or need to believe. In addition, we are often lazy and do not care whether something is really true or just true enough. All of these habits of perception and reaction contribute to the poor parsing of deception."
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"Deception." Internet Bookwatch, July 2009. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A206394314/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=7e71f0a8. Accessed 25 Sept. 2024.