**A Financial Times Best Book of the YearFeatured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and recommended by Anne Applebaum on The Ezra Klein Show“An essential read for our times.” —Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenAn eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment.**How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of t...

“A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth…Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night.”—Wall Street Journal“Harrington advises governments seeking to address inequality to focus not only on the rich but also on the professionals who help them game the system.”—Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs“An insight unlike any other into how wealth management works.”—Felix Martin, New Statesman“One of those rare book...

During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. Pop Finance follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of investment clubs, through which millions of people across the socioeconomic spectrum became investors for the first time. As sociologist Brooke Harrington shows, these new investors pour billions of dollars an...

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.In Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, sociologist Brooke Harrington reveals how this sy...

How do the ultra-rich keep getting richer, despite taxes on income, capital gains, property, and inheritance?Capital without Borders tackles this tantalizing question through a groundbreaking multi-year investigation of the men and women who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world's richest people. Brooke Harrington followed the money to the eighteen most popular tax havens in the world, interviewing wealth managers to understand how they help t...

Ein verblüffendes Hörbuch über die unheimliche Macht der Vermögensverwalter Ihre wichtigste Eigenschaft ist die Diskretion, und ihre Aufgabe ist es, den Reichtum der Reichsten unsichtbar zu machen - während sie ihn mehren. Ganze Teams von Offshore-Experten arbeiten Tag und Nacht daran, für ihre Kunden Steuerschlupflöcher zu finden, Gesetze zu umgehen, kreative Lösungen zu finden. Der Begriff Steuerparadies, der in vielen europäischen Sprachen für Offshore verwendet wird, wirkt angesichts d...

Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen helps explain the extent and the form of inequalities in bequests, of a result of the gender ...

A graphic novel adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed short story Red Dirt WitchIn this graphic novel adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s short story “Red Dirt Witch”—which was featured in the 2018 short story collection *How Long ’Til Black Future Month?—*we are introduced to Emma, a single Black mother of three in a backwater Alabama town in segregated 1940s America. In this alter...

What does Jesus call his disciples to do? To proclaim correct doctrines about Jesus? To avoid sinners and condemn sin? To impose their values and rules upon the wider society? To be supportive of the church? From the experience of almost three decades of work with the poor, the homeless, the crime victim, and the abused child as a lawyer and a United Methodist minister, Brooks Harrington hears Jesus in the Gospel according to Matthew teaching and showing that discipleship is the Way of Mer...

Two people from very different backgrounds and circumstances struggle together to find God in a world of random injustice and human evil. Paloma has suffered bitter poverty and neglect as a child and exploitation and addiction as a teen and an adult. John Levi is a lawyer from a privileged, sheltered home who answers the call of God to pastor an inner-city church. Together, Paloma and John Levi hunger and thirst for justice and mercy for the neighbors of the church and for Paloma and her d...

Mardi Gras Bound is the sequel to the popular mystery adventure When Fates Collide, the first book in When Fates Collide - a Morgan and Harrington Mystery Series. What happens when you put two of the most irreverent women (one a bounty hunter and the other a case of mistaken identity) together for a rip-roaring, hilariously wild adventure? This time around, join bounty hunter Alex Morgan and her new friend, former mistaken suspect jumper Hope Harrington, as they head to New Orleans during ...

How can we be just and merciful? Are justice and mercy in conflict? Or are they aspects of the same truth? Christians in America are presented with two conflicting versions of justice and mercy. One version comes from the dominant secular narrative of America. Justice and mercy are contradictions. Mercy is devalued and discouraged. But within the counter narrative of God revealed through Torah, the prophets, and particularly through the life and parables of Jesus, justice and mercy are asp...