12th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations (Prague, Czech Republic, 12–15 September 2018) Roundtable on Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis. Section 21: Historical International Relations. Participants: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University) Andreas Bieler (University of Nottingham) Kevin Gray (University of Sussex) Aida Hozić (University of Florida) Adam David Morton (University of Sydney) Sébastien Rioux (University of…
Alf Nilsen (University of Agder) Political Modernity in the Postcolony: A Perspective from India’s Bhil Heartland 4.00-5.30 Thursday 6th September, Merewether 498 Abstract: How do we conceptualise political modernity in the contemporary postcolony? This talk engages this question through an analysis of the roles played by law, civil society, and citizenship among Bhil adivasis in…
Book launch for Wrong Way: How Privatisation & Economic Reform Backfired, edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner Since the 1980s, successive waves of ‘economic reform’ have radically changed the Australian economy. We have seen privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and the contracting out of government services such as transport and education. For three decades, there has…
Radical Pedagogy and the Political Economy Movement What is the role of Political Economy in contemporary Australia? How does it position itself in the wider discourse of economics and the social sciences? What can Political Economy, as a social and academic movement, teach us? The tumultuous history of Political Economy at the University of Sydney…
[jumbotron heading=”Chad Satterlee, ‘The Institutional Design of Collectivist Political-Economic Systems: Some Open Questions and Working Answers’”] The political economy of modern models of collectivist political-economic systems has focused on the mitigation of negative externalities generated through the disproportionate influence that small classes of profit-appropriating individuals exercise over the political mechanisms in some societies. Other interesting…
After an overview of early Latin American independence struggles from the slave revolution in Haiti (1791-1803), immortalised by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, we examine in this course on Modern Revolutions in Latin America at WEA Sydney the history and influence of seven iconic twentieth-century revolutions in chronological order: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-present), Chile…
[jumbotron heading=”Frank Stilwell, ‘The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing…’”] During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Prominent public figures have described current inequalities as unacceptable and called for their reduction. The huge literature on the…
[jumbotron heading=”Sarah Kaine, ‘Long-term non-market strategies: how platform economy firms create favourable regulatory space’”] The proliferation of platform businesses has presented a regulatory challenge in jurisdictions around the world as start-ups have sought to shape the rules that define the markets in which they operate. Uber is the most obvious and well-known example. It has…
[jumbotron heading=”Rick Kuhn, ‘At the length the truth will out’ (hopefully): The reception of Henryk Grossman’s crisis theory”] Henryk Grossman recovered Marx’s theory of economic crisis, based on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, in his best known work, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, published in 1929….
