The 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 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 readingDuring the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal theorists had predicted. To the contrary, the fact that economic integration has been profoundly uneven has enabled the weaponisation of asymmetrical economic relations for the achievement of geopolitical and/or economic goals (Whyte 2022; Farrell 2023). The weaponisation of the unique international role of the US dollar is one of the most consequential examples of this trend. For instance, in the period since 2001, US sanctions designations have expanded by an extraordinary 933%. In the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine, dollar hegemony made it possible to freeze Russia’s foreign reserves and expel the country from the SWIFT payments system and US correspondent banking. Many states, including geopolitical rivals of the US such as China, understand this reality as a direct threat to their sovereign rights and interests and have been debating possible solutions, such as the introduction of central bank digital currencies and/or the creation of alternative mechanisms of payments clearing and financial messaging (Eichengreen 2022).
The intertwining between dollar hegemony and private money creation puts additional pressures on state sovereignty, as functions with profound and direct effects on the organisation of public life, such as money creation and credit allocation, are carried out by private institutions. Lawyers and political theorists alike have produced useful elaborations on the effects of dollar hegemony and public money on monetary sovereignty (Pistor 2017; Murau & van’t Klooster 2023). What remains relatively under-explored is the conceptual and practical challenges posed by dollar hegemony to state sovereignty more broadly, beyond the confines of monetary sovereignty. In other words, more work remains to be done on the tensions between state sovereignty, a globalised capitalist economy, and the economic unevenness that hegemonic currencies embody (Tzouvala 2024).
To this end, we seek contributions from economists, IR scholars, political theorists, historians, sociologists and lawyers to explore this important question as well as its theoretical and practical implications.
Continue readingPolitical economy seminar Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on USD Debt Speaker: Mareike Beck, University of Warwick When: Wednesday 17 April, 3-4pm, 2024 Where: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 341, The University of Sydney, and Zoom About the talk: I will speak about my new book, Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on USD Debt, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. The book offers a…
Continue readingUTS Comms Critical Webinar Series #2
The Atlas Network: Big Oil, Climate Disinformation and Constitutional Democracy
Date and time:
10-12 noon, Friday 8 December, Sydney time
6-8pm, Thursday 7 December, New York time
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Welcome: James Goodman
Chair: Scott Ludlam
Speakers:
Dr Jeremy Walker (Silencing the Voice)
Prof Nancy MacLean (Democracy in chains)
Amy Westervelt (Drilled)
Prof J. Timmons Roberts
Responses:
Brendan Demelle – Desmog
Climate Investigations Center (tbc)
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…
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The uncertain foundations of sustainable investing and the politics of risk
Speaker: Dr Claire Parfitt, University of Sydney
Date and time: Tuesday 12 September at 12 noon
Location: Social Sciences Building (A02), Room 650, The University of Sydney
Continue readingTHE 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:…
Continue readingThe 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…
Continue readingPolitical 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….
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