Offshore

An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism and the environment

"A Financial Times best book of the year and one of The New Yorker’s “Political Books to Help Us Make Sense of 2024”"

"Offshore centres sell secrecy. Such secrecy, [Brooke] Harrington argues, is indeed a source of wealth, but also a threat to law-governed democracy."

"You cannot understand the world of the super-rich without reading Brooke Harrington. Literary, intrepid and utterly original, she writes with insight and humour. Offshore is a portrait of plutocracy that is drawn not from statistics but from real-world encounters that the world almost never sees."

Brooke Harrington is a professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College, a certified wealth manager, and an advisor to the OECD and the European Parliament. She is the author of several books, including the best-selling Capital Without Borders.