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Sandy Brian Hager Profile picture
Sandy Brian Hager
@sanha926
Political economist | Researching corporate power and crisis
Sep 18 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
In a new @cityperc working paper I examine the biotech companies looking to profit from the looming legalization of psychedelic medicine.

How do these companies go about transforming psychedelics into profitable pharmaceuticals?
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Image Underpinning the psychedelic business model is a simple story about markets. Their vision? Rapidly scaling psychedelics through capital market financing, disrupting Big Pharma, delivering huge returns for shareholders and a triumphant end to the mental health crisis [2/15] Image
Feb 4, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
The Big Three asset managers - BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street - have vowed to tackle climate change and support sustainable finance. In a new @cityperc working paper, Joseph Baines and I take a closer look at their climate agenda bit.ly/3gskpeA [1/10] We do this by examining the Big Three's relationships with the publicly-owned companies Carbon Majors - a small group of fossil fuels, cement and mining companies responsible for the bulk of industrial greenhouse gas emissions [2/10]
theguardian.com/sustainable-bu…
Jan 25, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
In our latest for @RIPEJournal Joseph Baines and I examine some of the most important but under-researched corporations in the world today: the commodity trading firms. How do we make sense of these firms and their role in ecological devastation? [1/8] tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Some claim that financialization has encouraged a short-term outlook in the sector, with dire social and ecological consequences. But evidence for these claims is patchy, so part of our research involved mapping financialization metrics for the top commodity trading firms [2/8]
Jan 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
My latest @NPEjournal article with Joseph Baines has just been published. COVID has amplified longstanding concerns about rising corporate debt. But how do the debt burdens of large non-financial corporations compare to their smaller counterparts? [1/8]
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Our findings point to a 'great debt divergence' in the US in recent decades. Large corporations increased their leverage and decreased their debt servicing burdens. Even though smaller corporations de-leveraged, their debt servicing burdens increased [2/8]