[pol-soc-relig] Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington

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[pol-soc-relig] Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington | 2.56 MB

Title: Offshore
Author: Brooke Harrington​



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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,...

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