Frank Stilwell, 'The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing...'
During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Prominent public figures have described current inequalities as [...]
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Sarah Kaine, 'Long-term non-market strategies: how platform economy firms create favourable regulatory space'
The proliferation of platform businesses has presented a regulatory challenge in jurisdictions around the world as start-ups have sought to shape the rules that define the markets [...]
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Rick Kuhn, 'At the length the truth will out' (hopefully): The reception of Henryk Grossman's crisis theory
Henryk Grossman recovered Marx’s theory of economic crisis, based on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, in his best known work, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown [...]
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FILM SCREENING: DISASTER CAPITALISM
Monday 7th May, 6:30PM Hoyts Cinema Broadway in Sydney
Including a Q&A with:
Antony Lowenstein, writer/co-producer of Disaster Capitalism Dr Ruth Saovana, Bougainville People’s Research Centre James Goodman, Chair Aid/WatchBUY [...]
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Department of Political Economy Seminar Series
The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions
Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex
Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 5 April
Location: Merewether 426, University of [...]
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Simon Mohun, The Relevance of the Financial Crisis
With a return visit to the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Simon Mohun extends his work on the classical surplus-based tradition in economics. As he writes on his Research in Political Economy home page, [...]
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Martijn Konings, Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Within Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason, Martijn Konings argues that critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage [...]
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Examine the history and influence of six iconic revolutions: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-continuing), Chile (1970-73), Grenada (1979-83) and Nicaragua (1979-1990), and finally the “Pink Tide” movement led by the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela from 1998-present at the [...]
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