The recent growth in the scale and different forms of shadow banking and alternative finance mechanisms in China poses many questions of understanding, from its sustainability; different forms of credit growth; to the role of local government financing, and the tensions between financial reform policy and practice. While shadow banking and alternative finance are not…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Yanis Varoufakis, ‘Political Economy: The Social Sciences’ Red Pill’”] To mark his appointment as an Honorary Professor within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, we are delighted to announce the hosting of Professor Yanis Varoufakis. Date and Location: Friday 20 May 2016, Lecture Theatre 315, Eastern Avenue, 4:00pm – 5.30pm Please register HERE…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Elizabeth Humphrys (University of Technology Sydney), ‘Australia under the Accord (1983-1996): Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism’”] This is the fifth seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: Note the time change! 5 May 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:30pm – 6.00pm…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Yulia Maleta (University of Sydney), ‘Advocating an Ecofeminist Sociopolitical Economic Model’”] This is the fourth seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 21 April 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Building Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Latin America: Roundtable with Marta Harnecker, Michael Lebowitz and Luis Angosto-Ferrández ‘”] Date and Location: 13 May 2016, University of Sydney, Quadrangle Lecture Theatre [N205], 12:30pm – 2.00pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Rodrigo Acuña (Macquarie University), ‘Venezuelan Foreign Policy and Latin American Unification’”] This is the third seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 7 April 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Donna Baines (McMaster University), ‘Moral Projects and Compromise Resistance: Resisting Uncaring in Nonprofit Care Work’”] This is the second seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 24 March 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron] …
Continue readingIIPPE 7th International Conference in Political Economy ‘Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences’ School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal September 7-9, 2016 Call for Papers ‘The Political Economy of EU: the common home of European people or an imperialist integration?’ The European integration has been a long-standing and very ambitious project….
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Bruno Tinel (Université Paris), ‘Creating a Political Economic Community in France’”] This is the first seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 3 March 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]
Continue readingBasic Income (BI) has been in the news lately. The Swiss are set to vote on a proposal that would pay all citizens US$2,800 a month, trials of the policy in several Dutch cities have commenced, and a major nationwide study has been announced in Finland. We’ve also seen the launch of a new group…
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