The University of Sydney is the leading institution for the study of political economy in Australia and one of the leading institutions worldwide. After reviewing the international array of available courses, one US study reported that Sydney has “the world’s most distinctive undergraduate [...]
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I do crossword puzzles in the daily newspaper. One of the clues (9 across, I recall) in yesterday’s ‘quick’ puzzle was ‘relating to government’. ‘Political’ was the required answer. At first sight, that sounds reasonable. But [...]
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It is not every day that political economists get into direct dialogue with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But it happened recently as a result of an article appearing in the Journal of Australian Political Economy. Written by UK political economists, Alex Nunn and Paul White, the [...]
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A new report by the Evatt Foundation provides valuable information on the distribution of wealth in Australia. At a time when the major Australian political parties are clearly taking different positions on the importance of economic inequality, this is timely. The conservative Coalition [...]
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Malcolm Turnbull, having failed as a progressive social reformer, is now pinning his hopes for the forthcoming election largely on economic imagery. He wants to be seen as “a safe pair of hands” committed to producing more jobs and growth in the Australian Economy. But what lies [...]
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The Journal of Australian Political Economy is published twice a year. It has been running ever since the Australian political economy movement emerged in the 1970s.
JAPE has just published its 77th issue, and it is a particularly interesting one. As the journal’s coordinating editor, [...]
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It is sometimes said that ‘we are what we eat’. In a similar vein, perhaps we think what we read.
Academics spend a lot of time researching and writing, hoping to be published and read. Much of their writing is for academic journals. Do journals matter? At a minimum (I [...]
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Economic inequality, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, is currently in the spotlight. Neoliberalism was supposed to have banished this concern, turning our attention to how we all get rich by embracing free-market capitalism. But something went wrong, didn’t it? Now we find the Pope saying that [...]
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