One notices an international trend around the strengthening and prominence of right-wing parties and and far-right groups. Recent electoral gains around the world point to the need for the left to regroup to deal with the challenges of this right-wing offensive, even if at least to contain [...]
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It was exciting to hear last week that Progress in Political Economy (PPE) had been announced as the winner of the 2016 Best Blog (Group) Award by the Online Media Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA), which is supported by Sage. Announced at the ISA’s annual convention, in [...]
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In November of 2016 the EU Parliament voted to suspend talks with Turkey on its bid for membership of the European Union, highlighting the deterioration of human rights and the whittling away of democratic norms under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. This development almost certainly [...]
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On Monday 6 February 2017, the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney convened a postgraduate workshop with Paul Mason – British journalist, broadcaster, and author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. The workshop was titled ‘Towards A General Theory of Trump’, and [...]
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The rent-seeking argument emerging out of the progressive side of the mainstream economics community runs something like this: the top 1% are socially unproductive and receive obscene amounts of money by securing themselves into positions of ownership that permit them to misappropriate [...]
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This guy [Trump] probably knows where Stoke-on-Trent is, where UKIP is trying to beat Labour in a highly contested byelection. I would not be surprised if in his office, they are discussing what is happening, in this tiny beleaguered town that Adam comes from, right now
— Paul Mason, [...]
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A recent think piece by Spiked!’s theoretical guru, Frank Furedi, is an attack on the idea that anti-politics is any kind of solution to the current breakdown in authority of the political system. It’s worth examining Furedi’s case because it aligns with anti-anti-politics arguments [...]
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The Coalition government’s “Jobs and Growth” agenda is already in big trouble, only months after serving as the centerpiece of its reelection campaign. Australia lost 34,000 full-time jobs last year, underemployment is at record levels, and GDP growth has slipped into negative [...]
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