This revealing work highlights how the shadowy global system of offshore financing fuels economic crises and austerity while undermining democracy and the rule of law. Sociologist Brooke Harrington trained as an offshore wealth manager and spent years observing and interviewing experts in tax havens around the world, who hold the secrets and protect the assets of the global super-rich. She shows the cost of offshore financing for all of us and how it has colonized the world—not for any specific state, but for the benefit of a mostly invisible empire of a few thousand billionaires, who take advantage of the best that society has to offer while we bear the costs. As politicians grapple with the worsening economic and political inequality that destabilizes the world, Harrington's revealing work on the offshore system is a vital resource for understanding the most pressing crises of our time.

Pages: 176

Publication Year: 1024

Dimensions: 14.5x14.5cm