The Department of Political Economy, together with the Department of Anthropology, hosted an outstanding seminar by Professor Sujatha Fernandes to a packed audience at the University of Sydney on 13 October 2016.
Professor Fernandes spoke about her notion of the ‘political [...]
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More than two years after all three automakers in Australia announced they were closing down their manufacturing activities here, the shutdown of the entire industry is now at hand. That last Australian-made Ford car rolled off the assembly line in Broadmeadows, Victoria last week. Holden [...]
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This contribution is written jointly by Alexander Gallas and Jörg Nowak.* Despite the fact that there have been spectacular strikes in many parts of the world since the inception of the global economic crisis in 2007-8, the news media and the academic public have [...]
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In his classic work Europe and the People Without History, Eric Wolf launched a broadside against the methodological nationalism of sociology. The discipline, he argued, was wedded to the idea that “social relations take place within the charmed circle of the single nation-state”. [...]
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There is an emerging body of literature questioning the usefulness of the term ‘neoliberalism’. This work has highlighted the tendency for new analysis to simply add another yet more precise definition of neoliberalism in an effort — as Rajesh Venugopal says — ‘to refine, complicate and [...]
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On August 4, I posted my translation of Cuban intellectual Esteban Morales’ response to the explosive intervention by the 37-year-old Granma deputy editor, Karina Marron, at a meeting of the Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC) on June 28. I then translated Marron’s leaked intervention [...]
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Ahead of his delivery of the 9th Annual Wheelwright Lecture, how does one begin to evaluate and assess Development and Globalization by David Ruccio, his book of over 400 pages and 16 chapters, spanning output across more than 20 years of publications? The main [...]
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Class Acts in Political Economy
Roundtable Event with David Ruccio and Katherine Gibson
As part of the activities linked to his delivery of the 9th Annual Wheelwright Lecture, David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame) will be engaging in a unique event with Katherine [...]
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