Earlier this year, we published our jointly-authored book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis with Cambridge University Press. The book is wide-ranging and moves from meta-theoretical, to theoretical, to fine-grained empirical analysis of the agents and structures and thus the [...]
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The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the articles nominated by AIPEN members for the longlist for the 2018 prize.
The prize will be awarded to the best article published [...]
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Capitalism has been analysed to death in academia and elsewhere. Thus we know that capitalism is structurally conducive to exploitation, to the production and reproduction of class-based inequality, to the degradation of nature, and so on. Such analysis is of capitalism at its [...]
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In capitalism, i.e. ‘growth’ economies, housing (construction) is a significant — even leading — economic sector and area of social concern. Moreover, housing exposes many of the weaknesses of capitalism from crises of over-production, financialisation, inappropriate supply, over-consumption [...]
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Views on the importance of intergovernmental organisations (IOs) vary dramatically: from being merely part of the furniture of international relations; to positive constraints on states’ that further international cooperation and economic liberalisation; as purveyors of globalisation that [...]
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What is the purpose of theory? What utility is offered by our concepts and frameworks? Why do we group social phenomena in some ways and separate them in others? These fundamental questions probably seem simple—or simplistic—to a seasoned academic. But as a political economist coming to the [...]
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The release of the latest Marvel blockbuster, Avengers: Infinity War, has coincided with an age of political uncertainty and upheavals, and the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. Released in the current political climate of Trump, Brexit, and nuclear crises, with a resurgence of class struggle, so [...]
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If there is one theme that unites the various critiques of contemporary finance, it is the emphasis on its speculative character. Financial growth is said to be driven not by the logic of efficient markets, but rather by irrational sentiment, “animal spirits” that do not respect fundamental [...]
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