Offshore - Brooke Harrington

Offshore

Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-11032-3 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
An 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 the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their superyachts, 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 system works, as well as how it degrades democracy, the economy, and the public goods on which we all depend. Harrington spent eight years infiltrating this secretive world by training as a wealth manager, traveling from glossy European and North American capitals to developing countries in South America and Africa, to islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean, and South Pacific regions. Through interviews with dozens of wealth managers in nineteen countries, Harrington uncovered how this global network of offshore financial centers arose from the remnants of colonialism and has created a new, hidden imperial class

This engrossing deep dive reveals what offshore finance costs all of us, and how it has colonized the world—not on behalf of any one country, but to benefit a largely invisible empire of a few thousand billionaires, who help themselves to the best society has to offer while sticking us with the bill. As politicians struggle to address the deepening economic and political inequality destabilizing the world, Harrington’s exposé of the offshore system is a vital resource for understanding the most pressing crises of our time.

Brooke Harrington is a professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College, a certified wealth manager, and an advisor to the OECD and European Parliament, among other organizations. She is the author of several books, including the best-selling Capital without Borders.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.9.2025
Reihe/Serie A Norton Short
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
ISBN-10 1-324-11032-5 / 1324110325
ISBN-13 978-1-324-11032-3 / 9781324110323
Zustand Neuware
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