Brooke Harrington
American economic sociologist (born 1968)
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Elisabeth Brooke Harrington[2] (born 1968)[3] is an American academic, scholar, author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College.[4]
Elisabeth Brooke Harrington | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 30, 1968 |
| Occupation | professor of economic sociology |
| Academic work | |
Notable works | Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent[1] |
Early life
In 1990, Harrington earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Stanford University.[2] In 1996, Harrington earned a master's degree in sociology from Harvard University, followed by a PhD degree in sociology there in 1999.[2]
Career
From 1999 to 2007, Harrington was assistant professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brown University.[2] From 2006 to 2009, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.[2] She was a professor of economic sociology at the Copenhagen Business School from 2010 to 2018.[2]
In 2017, she faced legal difficulties with the authorities in Denmark about a visa dispute, even though she had been invited to speak as a guest lecturer to the Danish Parliament; the dispute ended eight months later when Denmark changed its laws.[5]
She is an advocate against xenophobia.[5]
In January 2019, she became a professor of sociology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.[6]
Works
- Harrington, Brooke (1999). "Dollars for Difference: The 'Diversity Premium' in Investing Organizations". Harvard University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
- Harrington, Brooke (2007). "Capital and Community: Findings from the American Investment Craze of the 1990s". Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter. 8 (3): 19–25. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0028-4E89-8.
- Harrington, Brooke (2008). Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691128320. [7][8]
- Harrington, Brooke, ed. (2009). Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804756495.[9]
- Harrington, Brooke (2016). Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674743809.[10][1][11]
- Harrington, Brooke (2024). Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9781324064954. OCLC 1418888778.
