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Rick Kuhn, The Reception of Henryk Grossman’s Crisis Theory

[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….

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Simon Mohun, The Relevance of the Financial Crisis

[jumbotron heading=”Simon Mohun, The Relevance of the Financial Crisis”] With a return visit to the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Simon Mohun extends his work on the classical surplus-based tradition in economics. As he writes on his Research in Political Economy home page, “one of the striking features of this tradition…

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Unravelling the Politics of Disarray

UNRAVELLING THE POLITICS OF DISARRAY Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations University of Nottingham, 15th June 2017 Clive Granger Building, University Park The new challenges facing societies across the globe have dismantled the conventional politics of stability, consensus and peace. Faced with increasing complexity, unpredictability and chaos, the fields of politics and…

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Benjamin Selwyn, ‘The Global Development Crisis’

[jumbotron heading=”Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex), ‘The Global Development Crisis’”] This is the seventh seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 29 October 2015, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]

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Compromised in Crisis: A Greek tragedy or real politik?

Compromised in Crisis: A Greek tragedy or real politik? When: Wednesday 19 August, 4:30-6:00pm Where: New Law Annexe, Room 346, University of Sydney A public forum organised by the Department of Political Economy on the current crisis in Greece, featuring Professor Aspromourgos from the University of Sydney, who will explain the context of European political economy and the structure…

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