Rick Kuhn, 'At the length the truth will out' (hopefully): The reception of Henryk Grossman's crisis theory
Henryk Grossman recovered Marx’s theory of economic crisis, based on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, in his best known work, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown [...]
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Department of Political Economy Seminar Series
The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions
Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex
Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 5 April
Location: Merewether 426, University of [...]
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Simon Mohun, The Relevance of the Financial Crisis
With a return visit to the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Simon Mohun extends his work on the classical surplus-based tradition in economics. As he writes on his Research in Political Economy home page, [...]
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Erik Olin Wright, Unconditional Basic Income: Progressive Potentials and Neoliberal Traps
Within Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright argues that a social economy could be promoted if the state, through its capacity to tax, provided funding for socially organised non-market [...]
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Martijn Konings, Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Within Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason, Martijn Konings argues that critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage [...]
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Geoff Mann’s stimulating book In the Long Run We are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution identifies a current of critical thought which stretches at least from the French Revolution, though Hegel and Keynes, to the present. It is a tradition deeply critical both of [...]
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I think the left should stop talking about ‘neoliberalism’, as I argue in a recent journal article published in Capital & Class.
I should first acknowledge that others, not properly referenced here, have said similar things more eloquently than I am capable. But I hope I can make [...]
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There has been growing public interest in the Department of Political Economy’s Research Seminar Series.
Specifically, requests have been made to make available Bill Dunn’s presentation on his new book Neither Free Trade Nor Protection: A Critical Political Economy of [...]
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