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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Ahead of his delivery of the 9th Annual Wheelwright Lecture, how does one begin to evaluate and assess Development and Globalization by David Ruccio, his book of over 400 pages and 16 chapters, spanning output across more than 20 years of publications? The main [...]
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Class Acts in Political Economy
Roundtable Event with David Ruccio and Katherine Gibson
As part of the activities linked to his delivery of the 9th Annual Wheelwright Lecture, David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame) will be engaging in a unique event with Katherine [...]
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Joseph Collins (Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney) - 'Possession vis-à-vis power: Toward a socially significant theory of mineral-rent in Australia'
The mining tax in Australia was a short-lived and [...]
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