Inside the Tax-Avoidance Racket of Wealth Management

To lend human agency to abstractions like “financialization,” “capital flight” and “globalization,” sociologist Brooke Harrington set out to be certified as a professional wealth manager—i.e., a member of the shadowy cadre of money concierges devoted to spiriting enormous fortunes into exotic offshore jurisdictions, beyond the grasping reach of taxes. Harrington…