Following my practice last year, I have listed my “novel” reading for 2016. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling on those airplane journeys from/to Sydney outside of my “normal” [...]
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Gareth Bryant’s article ‘“Fixing” the Climate Crisis: Capital, States and Carbon Offsetting in India’ (co-authored with Siddhartha Dabhi and Steffen Böhm), published in Environment and Planning A was voted the winner of the 2016 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) — [...]
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As part of his speaking commitments ahead of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) conference hosted at La Trobe University, Alan Knight (Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford) gave two talks at the University of Sydney.
The first was on ‘The Great Depression in [...]
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In his latest book entitled Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times Thomas Piketty argues that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes paints a revealing portrait of Mexican capitalism in his work. Just as Karl Marx said it was by reading Honoré de Balzac that one could [...]
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In May 2011, the Eurozone crisis in Portugal led the co-called troika of the EU, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to agree a €78 billion bailout with ongoing review procedures. Unemployment in 2011 was at 15.2 percent–the then third highest in the Eurozone after [...]
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2016 9th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy
David Ruccio (Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame)
“Utopia and the Critique of Political Economy”
Previous Wheelwright Lectures have been delivered by Walden Bello (2008), Jim Stanford [...]
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Alan Knight, Lawless Robbery Under the Volcano: British Cultural Commentators on Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1940
Sydney Ideas and the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney (in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University) [...]
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2016 9th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy
David Ruccio (Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney
18 October, 2016 – 6:00pm (drinks and bookstall in the Foyer beforehand from [...]
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