- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2023). From passive owners to planet savers? Asset managers, carbon majors and the limits of sustainable finance. Competition & Change, 27(3-4), pp. 449–471. doi:10.1177/10245294221130432.
- Dafe, F., Hager, S.B., Naqvi, N. and Wansleben, L. (2022). Introduction: The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization. Politics & Society, 50(4), pp. 523–542. doi:10.1177/00323292221125563.
- Samman, A., Boy, N., Coombs, N., Hager, S., Hayes, A., Rosamond, E. … Westermeier, C. (2022). After the boom: Finance and society studies in the 2020s and beyond. Finance and Society, 8(2), pp. 93–109. doi:10.2218/finsoc.7761.
- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2022). Commodity traders in a storm: financialization, corporate power and ecological crisis. Review of International Political Economy, 29(4), pp. 1053–1084. doi:10.1080/09692290.2021.1872039.
- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2021). The Great Debt Divergence and its Implications for the Covid-19 Crisis: Mapping Corporate Leverage as Power. New Political Economy, 26(5), pp. 885–901. doi:10.1080/13563467.2020.1865900.
- Hager, S.B. (2021). Varieties of top incomes? Socio-Economic Review, 18(4), pp. 1175–1198. doi:10.1093/ser/mwy036.
- Hager, S.B. and Baines, J. (2020). The Tax Advantage of Big Business: How the Structure of Corporate Taxation Fuels Concentration and Inequality. Politics & Society, 48(2), pp. 275–305. doi:10.1177/0032329220911778.
- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2020). Financial Crisis, Inequality, and Capitalist Diversity: A Critique of the Capital as Power Model of the Stock Market. New Political Economy, 25(1), pp. 122–139. doi:10.1080/13563467.2018.1562434.
- Hager, S.B. (2017). A global bond: Explaining the safe-haven status of US Treasury securities. European Journal of International Relations, 23(3), pp. 557–580. doi:10.1177/1354066116657400.
- Hager, S.B. (2015). Corporate ownership of the public debt: mapping the new aristocracy of finance. Socio-Economic Review, 13(3), pp. 505–523. doi:10.1093/ser/mwv013.
- Hager, S.B. (2014). What Happened to the Bondholding Class? Public Debt, Power and the Top One Per Cent. New Political Economy, 19(2), pp. 155–182. doi:10.1080/13563467.2013.768613.
- Hager, S. (2013). America's Real 'Debt Dilemma'. Review of Capital as Power, 1(1), pp. 41–62.
- van Apeldoorn, B. and Hager, S.B. (2010). The social purpose of new governance: Lisbon and the limits to legitimacy. Journal of International Relations and Development, 13(3), pp. 209–238. doi:10.1057/jird.2010.9.
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About
Overview
I am a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of International Politics. Before joining City I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and a Fellow in International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations at the LSE.
My research focuses on corporate power and inequality in global finance, and has been published in New Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, and the European Journal of International Relations.
Publications
Publications by category
Books (2)
- Hager, S.B. (2016). Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28466-1.
- Hansen, P. and Hager, S.B. (2010). The politics of European citizenship: Deepening contradictions in social rights and migration policy. ISBN 978-0-85745-621-2.
Chapters (4)
- Hager, S. (2023). Capital as Death Denial. In Samman, A. and Gammon, E. (Eds.), Clickbait Capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Hager, S.B. (2013). The power of investment banks: Surplus absorption or differential capitalization? The Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value (pp. 39–58). ISBN 978-0-203-79876-8.
- Hager, S. (2012). Investment bank power and neoliberal regulation: From the Volcker shock to the Volcker rule. In Overbeek, H. and van Apeldoorn, B. (Eds.), Neoliberalism in Crisis (pp. 68–92). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-00247-1.
- In van Apeldoorn, B., Drahokoupil, J. and Horn, L. (Eds.), (2009). Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance. In Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-35886-1.
Internet publication
- Hager, S. (2017). Trump and the Bond Market. Foreign Affairs.
Journal articles (13)
Reports (6)
- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2022). Drilling Down: UK Oil and Gas Financial Performance. Common Wealth.
- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2022). Performing without Transforming: The Case for a Windfall Tax in the United States. London.
- Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2022). Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System. London.
- Brett, M., Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2021). All Aboard: Transforming Bus Services. London.
- Hager, S.B., Baines, J. and Brett, M. (2021). Power Ahead: An Energy System Fit for the Future. London.
- Lawrence, M., Buller, A., Baines, J. and Hager, S.B. (2020). Commoning the Company. London.