The Discipline of Political Economy and the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is hosting a Teaching Political Economy Symposium on Monday December 8th at the University of Sydney. This workshop is being held as part of a suite of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. In 1975, a full program…
Continue readingThe making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’ Tuesday 25 March, 1.00pm-2:30 pm, 2025 Room 341, Level 3, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney Speaker: Dr Sahil Dutta For a generation that spanned from the depths of the interwar period to the birth of the postwar welfare state, British political economic policy was defined by…
Continue readingSydney Environment Institute presents Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy The economy is an increasingly significant terrain of climate politics. The climate debate has moved on from carbon pricing as the cornerstone of climate economics and is now focused on how climate change is, or should be, reshaping markets, industries and statecraft. However,…
Continue readingPolitics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation Speaker: Ben Spies-Butcher Thursday 7 November 2024, 12-1:30pm Room 441, Social Sciences Building (A02), The University of Sydney Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. This…
Continue readingJoin a panel of experts for a conversation that tackles the moral and ethical obligations integral to research and investing priorities. When: 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm, October 14, 2014 Where: Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315, University of Sydney Registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/weapons-climate-justice-and-investing-ethically We are living in an era of overlapping crises: from climate catastrophe to devastating wars, alongside…
Continue readingDouble book launch for: False Profits of Ethical Capital: Finance, Labour and the Politics of Risk by Claire Parfitt Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations by Lian Sinclair When: 630pm, Tuesday 29 October, 2024 Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Registration: https://gleebooks.com.au/event/claire-parfitt-and-lian-sinclair-double-launch/ Capitalism has a seemingly endless ability to incorporate critique, to…
Continue readingLaunch of Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state
Speakers: Phillip Toner and Michael Rafferty
Thursday 5 September 2024, 1:30-2:30 pm
Room 341, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney
Please join Phil Toner, Mike Rafferty and contributors for a seminar launching the recently released edited book Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state (Sydney University Press)
Continue readingPolitical Economy Seminar Class, Party, and American Politics in 2024 Speaker: Matthew Karp, Princeton University Time and date: Friday, 2 August 2024, 4-5:30 pm Location: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 650, The University of Sydney Abstract: It may be the most pervasive question in twenty-first century politics, all across the post-industrial world: Why have so many…
Continue readingJoin Ben Spies-Butcher, Damien Cahill and Gabrielle Meagher to launch Ben’s new book, Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation. Where: New Britannia Hotel, 103 Cleveland St, Darlington When: Wednesday 12th June, 5.30 for 6pm-7pm About Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation by Assoc Prof Ben Spies-Butcher Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system…
Continue readingEarlier this year, the Discipline of Political Economy, together with the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc), hosted an outstanding and well-attended talk by former Greek finance minister and Honorary Professor of Political Economy Yanis Varoufakis at the University of Sydney. The talk focused on the development of technofeudalism as the latest era of capitalism, and…
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