Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent

Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent

by Brooke Harrington
Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent

Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent

by Brooke Harrington

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Overview

“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 books where you just have to stand back in awe and wonder at the author’s achievement…Harrington offers profound insights into the world of the professional people who dedicate their lives to meeting the perceived needs of the world’s ultra-wealthy.”
Times Higher Education

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 their high-net-worth clients dodge taxes, creditors, and disgruntled heirs—all while staying just within the letter of the law. She even trained to become a wealth manager herself in her quest to penetrate the fascinating, shadowy world of the guardians of the one percent.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674244771
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 07/14/2020
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 670,406
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Brooke Harrington is Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Wealth Management as a Profession 36

3 Client Relations 79

4 Tactics and Techniques of Wealth Management 123

5 Wealth Management and Inequality 193

6 Wealth Management and the State 233

7 Conclusion 271

Notes 305

Acknowledgments 357

Index 359

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