I have recently co-written a chapter in the new ‘Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy’ that considers ways that political economy teaching can be expanded. Five broad strategies are discussed: seeking reform to get more PE units of study taught within economics [...]
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The overturning of Roe vs. Wade in the USA highlights the precariousness of legal institutions and the necessity for continuous struggle to both push for and enforce social rights. It shows the limitations of legal and state apparatuses, that are themselves a reflection of existing power [...]
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My monograph with Cambridge University Press, Against NGOs: A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development, explores how the figure of the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) emerged as a solution to the problems of development. I take up an observation Cornelius [...]
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We’re pleased to be able to inform readers of Progress in Political Economy of progress with a political economy project that we’ve been working on for the last three years. Following an invitation from the UK-based international publisher, Edward Elgar, we’ve been compiling a book that [...]
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International students fared worse than most in Australia during the COVID restrictions, especially because they were excluded from the financial assistance offered to citizens and permanent residents in 2020. At the height of the pandemic, media outlets across Australia published stories of [...]
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Through the Past & Present Reading Group we have experienced an organic, collective strategy of reading and writing that makes collective intellectual labour a little easier, and much more fun. This has come to the fore most recently in both our collective reading of György Lukács’ History and [...]
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We have travelled with Lukács. Despite the global pandemic conditions of lockdown induced by Covid-19, as a group of scholars forged through collective intellectual labour, we each picked up György Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness and travelled, at least intellectually. Based in [...]
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The past weeks have been turbulent times for global stock markets. Russia’s war in Ukraine caused global energy and food crises on top of the horror it brought to the Ukrainian people. The war and the COVID-19 crisis have disrupted global supply chains, significantly affecting the production of [...]
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