Political Economy Seminar Together We’ll Break These Chains of Love? The Community Ideal and the Multi-Criterial Economy Presenter: Aaron Benanav, Syracuse University Respondent: Dr Mike Beggs Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (AEDT) Seminar via Zoom for University of Sydney staff, students and affiliates. For further information please contact John Clegg…
In June 2023 Political Economy at the University of Sydney hosted a discussion on Jamie Martin’s new book, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press). Jamie gave a presentation on the book, and Martijn Konings was the discussant. Today we are publishing a recording of the event, along with an edited transcript of Martijn’s contribution and Jamie’s response.
The 2023 Paul Bourke Lecture presented by Dr Sophie Webber, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney ‘Climate finance: Taking a position on climate futures’ Climate change is increasingly conceptualised in financial terms. In policy and politics, climate change is viewed as a problem of bridging ‘financing’ gaps between the anticipated costs of climate change and…
THE RECORDING FOR THIS EVENT IS AVAILABLE HERE. Political Economy Seminar The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance Presenter: Jamie Martin, Harvard University Date: Friday 23 June 2023 Time: 11am (Sydney/Australian Eastern Time) Online: Please join via Zoom Please join us for a seminar with Jamie Martin, on his book, The Meddlers:…
Political Economy Seminar Cryptocurrencies as units of account: possibilities for a postcapitalist, distributed mode of measurement Presenter: Dick Bryan Date: Oct 25 2022 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Location: Room 650, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 and Zoom Recording Abstract There is, as yet, relatively little…
The Liveable Income Guarantee – The Missing Link in Social Security? A webinar organised by the Australian Basic Income Lab and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney on Tuesday September 20. Social security took a back seat in a Federal election dominated by the cost of living…
Political Economy Seminar Illusions of empowerment: checking household energy autonomy PRESENTER: Associate Professor Stuart Rosewarne (University of Sydney) DATE: Sep 16 2022 TIME 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm LOCATION: Room 650, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 and Zoom, Australian households have the highest rooftop solar voltaic panel take-up rate in the world….
What has the ‘market’ in capitalist society ever done for us? Is the ‘market’ an enabling force in our everyday lives, that unleashes prosperity, entrepreneurialism, unlimited economic growth, and asset inflation by way of offering choice and opportunity? Or, is there a concealed role to the ‘market’ that is more constraining in the way that it circumscribes our actions, limits and structures both individual and collective agency and ultimately ensures specific imperatives of competition, profit maximisation, and compulsion at the cost of socio-environmental degradation? For Social Sciences Week 2022, this Roundtable brings together leading political economists to examine critically the past and present history of the market.
