Adam Harmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 359905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Harmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Harmes |
| SIGNATURE | HARMES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1531-3574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Anti-ESG Backlash and Asset Manager Capitalism
This article examines the growing backlash among conservative activists and politicians in the United States against the use of ESG (environmental, social, governance) investment criteria by large asset management companies. It also examines the theoretical implications of the backlash for the growing literature on asset manager capitalism that has often viewed their promotion of ESG-at least in the United States-as mainly performative. To explai…
Response to Elliot Posner’s Review of The Politics of Fiscal Federalism
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Political Marketing in Post-Conflict Elections
This article examines political marketing in post-conflict elections through an illustrative case study of post-Saddam Iraq. It does so through articles and media reports as well as interviews and participant-observation research conducted in Iraq during the 2014 national and provincial elections. The article argues that, despite having a number of the comparative and ethnic conflict country characteristics that work against a market-oriented app…
Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,…
The Limits of Carbon Disclosure
This article examines the potential effectiveness of socially responsible investment (SRI) and investor environmentalism through carbon disclosure in terms of their key goal of creating real financial incentives, through share price performance, for firms to pursue climate change mitigation. It does so by theoretically assessing the two main assumptions which underpin investor environmentalism as promoted by SRI funds and NGOs such as the Carbon …
The rise of neoliberal nationalism
In the IPE literature, neoliberalism and nationalism have generally been portrayed as anti-thetical to one another. More recently, scholars have sought to challenge this binary view by examining how nationalists have employed neoliberal policies for nationalist reasons. However, while showing how neoliberal policies can be compatible with nationalist values, these approaches have not examined whether the reverse might also be true, whether certai…
The Political Economy of Open Federalism
This article examines the federal Conservative party's notion of “open federalism” from a political economy perspective. In doing so, it argues that open federalism will appeal to business interests and not to unions and social activists, because it is consistent with the neoliberal approach to federalism which seeks to lock in free market-oriented policies. To demonstrate this point, the article draws on the work of neoliberal intellectuals—incl…
Neoliberalism and multilevel governance
This article examines and theorizes neoliberal ideas related to the scale aspects of multilevel governance. It argues that neoliberalism contains a self-conscious normative project for multilevel governance which is consistent across the federal, regional and global levels. It further argues that the underlying logic of this project can be usefully theorized through various critical understandings of the separation of the economic and the politic…
Private Power and Global Authority
Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy, A. Claire Cutler, Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 306 In Private Power and Global Authority , Claire Cutler presents a theoretically rich and historically detailed account of the interrelationship between transnational merchant law and broader patterns of restructuring in the global po…
The New Masters of Capital
The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. By Timothy J. Sinclair. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 208p. $29.95. In his book, Timothy J. Sinclair makes a strong theoretical and empirical contribution to the growing political economy literature on the increasing influence of nonstate actors. More specifically, he draws upon a cogent interweaving of rationalist and constructivist appr…
The Trouble With Hedge Funds
This article examines the impact of hedge funds on the workings of international financial markets and their implications for public policy. In contrast to the neoclassical view of hedge funds, which views them as being'too-small-to-matter, this article argues that the activities of hedge funds are significant for policymakers because of their ability to become extensively overleveraged and to act as market leaders. I consider the role played by …
Institutional investors and Polanyi's double movement
This article constructs a model of contemporary currency crises which incorporates the role played by institutional investors and the dynamics associated with Karl Polanyi's notion of the 'double movement'. Polanyi's double movement, and its recognition of the need to integrate politics with economics, is used to explain why so many governments are prone to pursue policies that lead to a speculative attack against fixed exchange rates and why vir…
Mass Investment Culture
Consumption has long been the umbilical bond tying labour to capital. Is this beginning to shift towards investment, as passive participation in pension funds, and active speculation in mutual funds, become a mass phenomenon in North America
Institutional investors and the reproduction of neoliberalism
Despite their increasing prominence within the contemporary financial system, the collective impact of institutional investors (i.e. mutual, pension and hedge funds) and, in particular, their role in the reproduction of neoliberalism has received little attention among scholars. The argument of this article is that a focus on institutional investors is necessary in order to develop a more complete understanding of the shift towards neoliberal soc…
The rise of neoliberal nationalism
In the IPE literature, neoliberalism and nationalism have generally been portrayed as anti-thetical to one another. More recently, scholars have sought to challenge this binary view by examining how nationalists have employed neoliberal policies for nationalist reasons. However, while showing how neoliberal policies can be compatible with nationalist values, these approaches have not examined whether the reverse might also be true, whether certai…
Neoliberalism and multilevel governance
This article examines and theorizes neoliberal ideas related to the scale aspects of multilevel governance. It argues that neoliberalism contains a self-conscious normative project for multilevel governance which is consistent across the federal, regional and global levels. It further argues that the underlying logic of this project can be usefully theorized through various critical understandings of the separation of the economic and the politic…
Institutional investors and the reproduction of neoliberalism
Despite their increasing prominence within the contemporary financial system, the collective impact of institutional investors (i.e. mutual, pension and hedge funds) and, in particular, their role in the reproduction of neoliberalism has received little attention among scholars. The argument of this article is that a focus on institutional investors is necessary in order to develop a more complete understanding of the shift towards neoliberal soc…
The Political Economy of Open Federalism
This article examines the federal Conservative party's notion of “open federalism” from a political economy perspective. In doing so, it argues that open federalism will appeal to business interests and not to unions and social activists, because it is consistent with the neoliberal approach to federalism which seeks to lock in free market-oriented policies. To demonstrate this point, the article draws on the work of neoliberal intellectuals—incl…
The Limits of Carbon Disclosure
This article examines the potential effectiveness of socially responsible investment (SRI) and investor environmentalism through carbon disclosure in terms of their key goal of creating real financial incentives, through share price performance, for firms to pursue climate change mitigation. It does so by theoretically assessing the two main assumptions which underpin investor environmentalism as promoted by SRI funds and NGOs such as the Carbon …
Institutional investors and Polanyi's double movement
This article constructs a model of contemporary currency crises which incorporates the role played by institutional investors and the dynamics associated with Karl Polanyi's notion of the 'double movement'. Polanyi's double movement, and its recognition of the need to integrate politics with economics, is used to explain why so many governments are prone to pursue policies that lead to a speculative attack against fixed exchange rates and why vir…
Political Marketing in Post-Conflict Elections
This article examines political marketing in post-conflict elections through an illustrative case study of post-Saddam Iraq. It does so through articles and media reports as well as interviews and participant-observation research conducted in Iraq during the 2014 national and provincial elections. The article argues that, despite having a number of the comparative and ethnic conflict country characteristics that work against a market-oriented app…
Private Power and Global Authority
Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy, A. Claire Cutler, Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 306 In Private Power and Global Authority , Claire Cutler presents a theoretically rich and historically detailed account of the interrelationship between transnational merchant law and broader patterns of restructuring in the global po…
The Anti-ESG Backlash and Asset Manager Capitalism
This article examines the growing backlash among conservative activists and politicians in the United States against the use of ESG (environmental, social, governance) investment criteria by large asset management companies. It also examines the theoretical implications of the backlash for the growing literature on asset manager capitalism that has often viewed their promotion of ESG-at least in the United States-as mainly performative. To explai…
The Trouble With Hedge Funds
This article examines the impact of hedge funds on the workings of international financial markets and their implications for public policy. In contrast to the neoclassical view of hedge funds, which views them as being'too-small-to-matter, this article argues that the activities of hedge funds are significant for policymakers because of their ability to become extensively overleveraged and to act as market leaders. I consider the role played by …
Institutional investors and the reproduction of neoliberalism
Despite their increasing prominence within the contemporary financial system, the collective impact of institutional investors (i.e. mutual, pension and hedge funds) and, in particular, their role in the reproduction of neoliberalism has received little attention among scholars. The argument of this article is that a focus on institutional investors is necessary in order to develop a more complete understanding of the shift towards neoliberal soc…
Institutional investors and Polanyi's double movement
This article constructs a model of contemporary currency crises which incorporates the role played by institutional investors and the dynamics associated with Karl Polanyi's notion of the 'double movement'. Polanyi's double movement, and its recognition of the need to integrate politics with economics, is used to explain why so many governments are prone to pursue policies that lead to a speculative attack against fixed exchange rates and why vir…
Mass Investment Culture
Consumption has long been the umbilical bond tying labour to capital. Is this beginning to shift towards investment, as passive participation in pension funds, and active speculation in mutual funds, become a mass phenomenon in North America
The Trouble With Hedge Funds
This article examines the impact of hedge funds on the workings of international financial markets and their implications for public policy. In contrast to the neoclassical view of hedge funds, which views them as being'too-small-to-matter, this article argues that the activities of hedge funds are significant for policymakers because of their ability to become extensively overleveraged and to act as market leaders. I consider the role played by …
Private Power and Global Authority
Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy, A. Claire Cutler, Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 306 In Private Power and Global Authority , Claire Cutler presents a theoretically rich and historically detailed account of the interrelationship between transnational merchant law and broader patterns of restructuring in the global po…
The New Masters of Capital
The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. By Timothy J. Sinclair. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 208p. $29.95. In his book, Timothy J. Sinclair makes a strong theoretical and empirical contribution to the growing political economy literature on the increasing influence of nonstate actors. More specifically, he draws upon a cogent interweaving of rationalist and constructivist appr…
Neoliberalism and multilevel governance
This article examines and theorizes neoliberal ideas related to the scale aspects of multilevel governance. It argues that neoliberalism contains a self-conscious normative project for multilevel governance which is consistent across the federal, regional and global levels. It further argues that the underlying logic of this project can be usefully theorized through various critical understandings of the separation of the economic and the politic…
The Political Economy of Open Federalism
This article examines the federal Conservative party's notion of “open federalism” from a political economy perspective. In doing so, it argues that open federalism will appeal to business interests and not to unions and social activists, because it is consistent with the neoliberal approach to federalism which seeks to lock in free market-oriented policies. To demonstrate this point, the article draws on the work of neoliberal intellectuals—incl…
Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,…
The Limits of Carbon Disclosure
This article examines the potential effectiveness of socially responsible investment (SRI) and investor environmentalism through carbon disclosure in terms of their key goal of creating real financial incentives, through share price performance, for firms to pursue climate change mitigation. It does so by theoretically assessing the two main assumptions which underpin investor environmentalism as promoted by SRI funds and NGOs such as the Carbon …
The rise of neoliberal nationalism
In the IPE literature, neoliberalism and nationalism have generally been portrayed as anti-thetical to one another. More recently, scholars have sought to challenge this binary view by examining how nationalists have employed neoliberal policies for nationalist reasons. However, while showing how neoliberal policies can be compatible with nationalist values, these approaches have not examined whether the reverse might also be true, whether certai…
Political Marketing in Post-Conflict Elections
This article examines political marketing in post-conflict elections through an illustrative case study of post-Saddam Iraq. It does so through articles and media reports as well as interviews and participant-observation research conducted in Iraq during the 2014 national and provincial elections. The article argues that, despite having a number of the comparative and ethnic conflict country characteristics that work against a market-oriented app…
Response to Elliot Posner’s Review of The Politics of Fiscal Federalism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Anti-ESG Backlash and Asset Manager Capitalism
This article examines the growing backlash among conservative activists and politicians in the United States against the use of ESG (environmental, social, governance) investment criteria by large asset management companies. It also examines the theoretical implications of the backlash for the growing literature on asset manager capitalism that has often viewed their promotion of ESG-at least in the United States-as mainly performative. To explai…
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