Call for participants for the ANZSEE 2019
Ecological Economics: Solutions Now and in the Future conference
The 2019 Australia New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics conference will address the great challenges of our times: environmental crises and how we can live [...]
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In capitalism, i.e. ‘growth’ economies, housing (construction) is a significant — even leading — economic sector and area of social concern. Moreover, housing exposes many of the weaknesses of capitalism from crises of over-production, financialisation, inappropriate supply, over-consumption [...]
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The ‘housing question’ to which Engels famously contributed and that raged in the 1870s in Germany, has returned, especially in global cities, such as Sydney and Melbourne. Such challenges are often framed as ‘unmet demand’ with calls to stimulate housing supply yet price trends are more [...]
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Here is a short version of a paper presented at the 9th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Workshop, 8–9 February 2018 at Monash University, Melbourne
Uruguyan novelist and historian Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) wrote more than 40 books. Monthly Review lauded [...]
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With economic, social and environmental crises worldwide, the inhumane and ecologically destructive nature of capitalism is only too obvious. A plethora of movements unite those protesting these conditions of inequality and unsustainability and make demands in various spaces and contexts, to [...]
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Servant of the Revolution
Date and time: Thursday 7 December, 11.45am–1.10pm,
Venue: Law Lounge, New Law Building, University of Sydney
A rehearsed play reading introduced by playwright Anitra Nelson, with discussion after the performance
Entry is free whether you [...]
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Marking the release of Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers by Costas Lapavitsas, I was delighted to be the discussant in the ‘Thinking about Money’ Symposium launching it at SOAS, University of London (18 January).
The Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Senate House) was full and lively [...]
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The ‘Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today‘ conference will be held on 6–7 April 2017 — organised by members of the Economics and Sociology departments of Hofstra University, New York — one of many events in 2017 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of [...]
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