Scientific understanding of the consequences of inequality has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Thanks to the pioneering work of scholars such as Joseph Stiglitz, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, and Tony Atkinson, we know that persistent social and economic inequality exacts an [...]
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Globalisation has been shifting manufacturing from richer to poorer countries for decades. In its initial phase, the global shift of labour-intensive products like garments, shoes and toys was criticised as an exercise in the exploitation of low-wage labour—the so-called ‘low road’ of [...]
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In late August the Department of Political Economy welcomed Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy from the University of London (SOAS), to Sydney for the 11th annual E.L. Wheelwright Lecture.
Titled ‘The crisis of neoliberalism and the rising tide of authoritarianism’, [...]
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Masterclass with Andreas Bieler (University of Nottingham) and Adam David Morton (University of Sydney)
In this seminar to be hosted at the University of Wollongong, we discuss our new book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the [...]
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Fraud is an issue that haunts many contemporary societies around the globe, including in East Africa. I have been researching the topic of economic trickery for over a decade in Uganda, and published a number of articles, books and opinion pieces about the matter.
As many of you might [...]
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… Here lies in ruin
The masterpiece of gods, the tower of Asia.
To her defence allies had come from far,
From the nine mouths of frozen Tanäis,
And from the birthplace of the dawn, where Tigris
Pours his hot stream into the ruby sea;
Hither had come [...]
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In 2015 a one-day graduate workshop was held at the University of Sydney, on questions of method in Antonio Gramsci. Anchored by keynote presentations from two leading scholars — Adam David Morton and Peter Thomas — the workshop bought together research students working with Gramsci’s [...]
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Brazil elected its new President on 28 October 2018 – the improbable, unspeakable fascist former army captain Jair Bolsonaro won against the affable unimpeachable democratic candidate of a left alliance led by the Workers’ Party (PT). Can a sophisticated young democracy, in the largest [...]
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