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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Sections of the English Left have voted for Brexit in protest against the Tory government’s policy of austerity and the support provided by the neoliberal elite of the EU. While I have some sympathy for their position, they have done so with little thought for the long-term plans for [...]
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Neoliberalism has become a popular but troubled term to characterise our age. Since the 1980s, within many fields of the social sciences, but also extending into public debates, this expression has been called upon to symbolise, clarify or, through normative inflections, denounce a whole [...]
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The EU referendum in Britain has created remorse for us all. With all the vitriol unfolding over the Brexit result, people close to me have been prodding with a pointy finger to make my own stance clear. This, to me, was a surprise.
In the buildup, I did not campaign on the referendum [...]
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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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Felicity Wade is the National Co-convenor of the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) and has worked for NSW Leader of the Opposition Luke Foley and The Wilderness Society.
Here, Felicity talks about her journey through the Department of Political Economy within the School of [...]
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Welfare is commonly understood in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing capitalist economies. In times when the unequal distribution of wealth in the ‘advanced’ capitalist world has returned to levels of the 19th century, the question of whether we [...]
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Opening Pandora’s Box?
In a recent article co-authored with Pınar Donmez and published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, we seek to reassess a debate between a heterogeneous body of scholarship, referred to as ‘open Marxism’, and its critics. While we [...]
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