In recent years, the climate movement has adopted a strategy of pressuring institutions to divest from their holdings of fossil fuel related shares. Divestment is certainly an enticing proposition for otherwise powerless activists – the idea that such a simple financial decision could [...]
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The crisis engulfing global energy markets is accelerating the turn to renewable energy, as wind and solar technologies are presented as the solution to all manner of social, political and economic problems. The European Union is looking to renewables as the answer to rapidly rising gas [...]
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On September 4th, Chile held a national referendum to approve or reject a new Constitution that would have replaced Pinochet’s authoritarian and anti-democratic Constitution of 1980. Widely regarded as progressivist and innovative in many regards, it was rejected by [...]
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Political Economy Seminar
Cryptocurrencies as units of account: possibilities for a postcapitalist, distributed mode of measurement
Presenter: Dick Bryan
Date: Oct 25 2022 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Location: Room 650, [...]
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In the right-wing backlash against environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, everyone is accusing everyone else of placing politics over financial returns. The ESG vs anti-ESG debate has led various commentators to argue that ESG investing should be split into purely risk-based and [...]
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We recently published a book about capitalism in which we approve of the free market. This evidently makes us “neoliberals”. Yet, in the same book we advocate strong measures to reduce inequality including a wealth tax and universal basic income (UBI) – a government payment to all citizens [...]
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15th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture. Hosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc).
Jessica Whyte, [...]
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused humanitarian catastrophe and vast economic destruction. Ukraine has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency financing, the European Commission has pledged €1.2 billion to the besieged nation, and the World Bank has positioned itself as a [...]
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