In February of this year, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Green New Deal resolution into the United States Congress. The resolution outlined a 10 year plan for the decarbonisation of the American economy in the tradition of FDR’s 1930s New Deal, but rewritten for the [...]
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Quantification and control share a long history. As the Harvard Business Review put it in 2012, “You manage what you measure.” And in our age of Big Data, measurement is rife. Whether the GPS trackers measuring the micro-movements of Amazon factory workers or the standardised tests [...]
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We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2019 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize. This is the fifth annual prize for the best article published in the broad field of International Political Economy [...]
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liquidity, n.: Econ. The interchangeability of assets and money.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2 ed. (1989).You don’t anywhere come right out in the open and say what liquidity is.
Joan Robinson (1935) Letter to John Maynard Keynes.a highly complex phenomenon. Its [...]
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As the climate crisis deepens, fault lines between different possible political-economic pathways are widening. The current pace and breadth of decarbonisation is too slow and uneven compared to what the IPCC says is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In 2018, more new renewable [...]
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The future of coal is in doubt. Declining coal production and major challenges to coal mine approvals in Australia are now established trends. Renewable energy is set to become over half of the nation’s domestic electricity production by 2030.
This is good news for human and [...]
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Review of: Pamela Odih, Adsensory Urban Ecology (2 vols.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. HB 978-1-5275-2468-2
This is raw political economy. Odih, a teacher at Goldsmiths, befriends neighbours of the Grenfell Tower fire; ill-fated trees of the Thames bank; the [...]
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The shock Australian election result may have just triggered the conversation we need to have about climate change.
During the campaign, the ‘climate election’ was being framed by Labor, independents and the Greens as a referendum on whether or not Australia should take strong [...]
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