Sandy Hager's guest appearances

Sandy Hager

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Gospel Outreach Ministries COGIC

PERC Podcasts

Jason Moore

James Buchanan

Randy Shaw

Mark Blyth

Raj Patel

Ryan Murphy

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

David Harvey

Martijn Konings

Louis Hyman

Leigh Claire La Berge

Jim Crow

Tim Jackson

Josh Davis

Nancy MacLean

OwlTail

PERC’s Sahil Jai Dutta is joined by Dr Sandy Brian Hager (City, University of London) to discuss the political economy of the corporation. He is the author of the book Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State (2016) published by University of California Press. The conversation spans across the topics of ownership and the politics of public debt, the power of large banks in the US, and his most recent work exploring what drives long-term shifts in the stock markets in the ‘advanced’ economies.

PERC Podcast with Sandy Hager - The Political Economy Of The Corporation

Who owns the U.S. public debt? Why is it such an important commodity in global capitalism? Why does public debt provoke such intense political debate? And how can the quantitative data on the ownership structure of public debt provide insights into these topics? Our guest today, Sandy Hager reveals answers to all of these questions and more. Sandy Brian Hager is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is author of Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State.

Who owns the U.S. public debt? Why is it such an important commodity in global capitalism? Why does public debt provoke such intense political debate? And how can the quantitative data on the ownership structure of public debt provide insights into these topics? Our guest today, Sandy Hager reveals answers to all of these questions and more. Sandy Brian Hager is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is author of <a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520284661" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State.</a>

Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality