Can there be a Critical Political Economy of International Trade?

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 Trade Theory and Practice.

We have therefore enabled wider dissemination of this presentation that was made on 24 September 2015 to a packed out audience of staff members, students, and wider members of the public engaged in critical political economy.

Author: Bill Dunn

Bill Dunn works in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His principal research interests are in the contemporary global political economy of labour, crises, international trade and Marxism.

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