“Neoliberalisation is never found alone” claims Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner. “As a necessarily incomplete program, wherever it is found, neoliberalism is therefore a creature of less-than-happy marriages, revealed in various states of contradictory yet constitutive cohabitation [...]
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Announcing a new book series published by Stanford University Press:
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
Edited by Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings (University of Sydney)
In the wake of recent events such as the global financial crisis, the Occupy Wall Street [...]
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An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it.
The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? Richard Robbins and [...]
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I do crossword puzzles in the daily newspaper. One of the clues (9 across, I recall) in yesterday’s ‘quick’ puzzle was ‘relating to government’. ‘Political’ was the required answer. At first sight, that sounds reasonable. But [...]
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Public Letter from Economists, April 6 2017
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has recently decided to reduce penalty rates for work on Sundays and public holidays in the retail and hospitality sectors. Rates would fall by 25 to 50 percentage points of base wages, for most employees [...]
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A dread smoldering in the hearts of many who identify with the Left burst into flames when Donald Trump captured the White House in November 2016. Brexit was scary; this was downright terrifying. There were those who cautioned against panic; they tried to assure us not to make too much of [...]
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Some fifteen years ago, Leonie Sandercock made the case for the need to engage with what she dubbed the “political economies of urban fear”. Arguing that “planning and urban management discourses are, and always have been, saturated with fear”, she proposed to explore the connections between [...]
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To-date, political economy scholarship has only cautiously engaged with matters of moral economy in contemporary society. This is strikingly different from the recent surge in respective scholarship and debates in anthropology and sociology. The moral properties of capitalist economy at a [...]
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