Earlier this year, the Discipline of Political Economy, together with the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc), hosted an outstanding and well-attended talk by former Greek finance minister and Honorary Professor of Political Economy Yanis Varoufakis at the University of Sydney. The talk focused on the development of technofeudalism as the latest era of capitalism, and…
Continue readingMy new edited volume A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy has just been published. The book’s chapters explore different dimensions of political economy and different ways of doing political economy. Issues range across inequality, growth and development, money, trade, land, time and space, and social movements. Perspectives include Marxism, post-colonial theory, feminism, post-Keynesian and experimental…
Continue readingCall for papers for the 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 16–19 September 2020, Msida, Malta. Political Economy Beyond Boundaries, a new EISA PEC standing section, is inviting paper, panel and roundtable proposals. The section aims to develop a sustained research network of scholars working in and beyond International Studies to promote critical research on the…
Continue readingWhat’s Next? Critical Political Economy at the End of Neoliberalism? Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) mid-term workshop – Call for Papers Friday 19 – Saturday 20 June 2020 University of Limerick, Ireland For some, the rise of a populist-nativist political turn represents the end of neoliberalism. Certainly, the period of neoliberal growth has come to…
Continue reading[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…
Continue readingFrom Economic Rationalism to Global Neoliberalism? A Workshop for Early-Career and Postgraduate Researchers RMIT, Melbourne, Fri 2nd December, 2016 Hosted by The Australian Sociological Association’s (TASA) Sociology of Economic Life thematic group and Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT CALL FOR PAPERS This year marks the 25th anniversary of Michael Pusey’s seminal text of economic…
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 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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