Research

- Global Trade and Finance - Food - Global Agriculture - Drugs - Corporate Power - Globalization - Poverty - Inequality - Higher Ed - Teaching and Learning - Risk

- Global Trade and Finance - Food - Global Agriculture - Drugs - Corporate Power - Globalization - Poverty - Inequality - Higher Ed - Teaching and Learning - Risk

  • Derivatives and Development is "critical reading for students of development, finance, and political economy", says Jose Antonio Ocampo.

  • "Food Deserts and Supermarket Culture in Denver, CO" won the 2021 Editor's Choice Award from the Journal of Economic Issues.

  • My 2023 article on the global debt crisis made the cover of Dollars & Sense

  • My friend and I couldn't find the right kind of textbook for our global politics classes. So we wrote our own.

What people are saying about my research and writing

“Logically argued, richly-detailed and thoroughly researched, in Derivatives and Development, Sasha Breger illuminates the complex interface between the world food system and modern financial engineering.”

— James Boyce, Professor of Economics UMass Amherst

“This paper is extraordinarily provocative, insightful, and original.”

— Reviewer, “Rethinking Drugs”, Review of Social Economy (2019)

“The Global Politics book you wrote was one of the best, strait forward, understandable and approachable books I have read not only in political science but in general.”

— Student, Spring 2021

“Breger Bush meticulously follows the global coffee commodity chain to reveal how the livelihoods of small coffee producers in the South have been compromised by the liberalization of coffee trade and by the integration of derivative markets into development policy.”

— Geoffery Lawrence, review of Derivatives and Development in the Journal of Peasant Studies (2014)

“Sasha Breger-Bush’s insightful 2020 book, Global Politics: A Toolkit for Learners, is highly useful for instructors teaching any topic and any course format be it face-to-face, asynchronous online, or remote synchronous.

-Harvey Bishop, Senior Instructor, University of Colorado Denver

“Congratulations on your very fine work.”

-Editor, Journal of Economic Issues, upon receipt of the 2021 Editor’s Choice Award