Many people associate the beginning of neoliberalism with the election of conservative governments influenced by the New Right and theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. A useful question to ask, then, is why didn’t the vanguard neoliberal period commence during Australia’s [...]
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Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds to the joy once a project reaches an unexpected destination.
When Adam David Morton arrived to take up his Professorship at Sydney in 2014, it coincided with a merging and re-foundation of a number of local Capital [...]
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Economic sociology is synonymous with the study of political economy. With roots in institutional economics, Marxian political economy and urban studies, as well as classical contributions from Max Weber, Émile Durkheim and Karl Polanyi, the field fits well with political economy’s [...]
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The latest issue of Oxford Left Review has a number of engaging articles on the nature and consequences of neoliberalism. Neil Davidson from the University of Glasgow examines the changing social base of neoliberalism, where he explores the shift from vanguard to ‘social’ neoliberalism and [...]
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This week, Political Economy Department members Elizabeth Humphrys and Damien Cahill are speaking at the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference at the University of Sydney. They are presenting a joint paper on Labour and the Neoliberal Revolution.
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Only days after her ‘official’ retirement Raewyn Connell was back in the Merewether building to speak to the Political Economy Research Students’ Journal Club, the location she first worked from at the University of Sydney. The article up for discussion was her recent publication [...]
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