Brooke Harrington Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
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.