Check out Frank Stilwell speaking on the political economy of inequality during Social Sciences Week 2019 on 10 September, tickets available, HERE.
Why write a new book on economic inequality? During the six years since the French political economist Thomas Piketty [...]
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Discussing the analytical and political challenges
It is important to have a spatial or geographical dimension to political economic analysis, just as it is important to recognise its temporal dimension. In the real world, all human activity occurs in both space and time. Any [...]
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When: Wednesday 8 May 2018, 5.30-7.00pm
Where: Sydney Trades Hall Auditorium, 4-6 Goulburn St Sydney
Speakers: Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Oxfam Australia
John [...]
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Concern with economic inequality is a defining feature of the current era. Prominent international public figures, ranging from Pope Francis to Christine Lagarde, have declared global economic inequality to be the top priority.
What are the preconditions for moving from [...]
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In this joint blog post Christopher Sheil and I focus on The World Inequality Report 2018, published last week, which raises the question of whether Australia’s middle class is being squeezed by increasing concentration in the ownership of wealth.
Taking the combined results for the [...]
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Failure to anticipate the global financial crash that began a decade ago was expected to precipitate embarrassment, if not a major crisis, for the economics profession. Even the Queen of England publicly asked why economists had got it so wrong! Ten years on, the storm has evidently been [...]
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David Harvey’s pioneering book Social Justice and the City (1973) takes its readers on a fascinating journey, from a mainstream liberal view of the city to a radical political economic alternative. The transition is developed through engagement with an array of complex analytical issues – [...]
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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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