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  • Offshore

  • Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
  • By: Brooke Harrington
  • Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
  • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Offshore

By: Brooke Harrington
Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
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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 system works, as well as how it degrades democracy, the economy, and the public goods on which we all depend. 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 expose of the offshore system is a vital resource for understanding the most pressing crises of our time.

©2024 Elisabeth Brooke Harrington (P)2024 Tantor
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Wayyy too one-sided and woke to be taken seriously.

Never once gave a single argument for financial privacy such as combating government corruption (such as in my country), incentivizing economic growth, or remembering the arbitrary confiscation of Jewish money by nazi Germany in the 1930s. Shame that this author still can’t put together a balanced piece of nonfiction because she’s clearly spent so much time researching this subject. Classic elitist American leftism from an Ivy League professor.

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