A common protest heard from the asset poor is one of ‘no future’. Here, income contingency and asset-based growth (in particular house price inflation) are understood to have combined to produce a specific temporal universe in which a distinctive politics of the future has opened out. In [...]
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Regulation Theory & Australian Capitalism: Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law.
Please join Brett Heino, together with Joellen Riley Munton and Eugene-Schofield Georgeson, for the launch of the paperback version of his book Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism: [...]
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How can we close the widening gap between rich and poor? Political economist Frank Stilwell will discuss economic inequality, expose the scale of the problem and provide alternative strategies for a fairer society.
Event detailsDate and time: Tuesday 10 September, 6:00pm – [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History (Second edition, 1992).
As previously, we will meet Fridays, [...]
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When: Wednesday 8 May 2018, 5.30-7.00pm
Where: Sydney Trades Hall Auditorium, 4-6 Goulburn St Sydney
Speakers: Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Oxfam Australia
John [...]
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Call for presenters
Bringing life’s work to market: A symposium on practices and spaces of marketised social reproduction
16-17 December 2019, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Confirmed [...]
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‘Keeping up with Our Rated Selves: On Credit, Sharing, and Self-Esteem’
The renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, Michel Feher, will present a double-lecture on the social and affective implications of the increasing assetisation of the economy.
If governing [...]
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A Debate Between Jim Stanford and Michel Feher
The deleterious social consequence of the contemporary asset economy are well-documented. Households are shouldering levels of mortgage debt that appear increasingly unsustainable both to themselves and the wider economy. Alternatively, a [...]
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