As featured in The Sydney Morning Herald by Matt Wade, the share of total economic output in Australia that is paid to workers (in the form of wages, salaries, and superannuation contributions) has been declining for decades. Workers produce more real output with each hour of labour (thanks [...]
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Failure to anticipate the global financial crash that began a decade ago was expected to precipitate embarrassment, if not a major crisis, for the economics profession. Even the Queen of England publicly asked why economists had got it so wrong! Ten years on, the storm has evidently been [...]
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Utopia and the Critique of Political Economy
In my article, published in the Winter 2017, No. 79 issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE), based on my 2016 E. L. Wheelwright Memorial Lecture, I show that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had a much more positive [...]
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The publication of every issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is an occasion for celebration, but No. 78 of JAPE, focusing on ‘global economic inequalities and development’ warrants even more celebration. This is the first time in over three decades that JAPE has taken [...]
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The Journal of Australian Political Economy is published twice a year. It has been running ever since the Australian political economy movement emerged in the 1970s.
JAPE has just published its 77th issue, and it is a particularly interesting one. As the journal’s coordinating editor, [...]
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It is sometimes said that ‘we are what we eat’. In a similar vein, perhaps we think what we read.
Academics spend a lot of time researching and writing, hoping to be published and read. Much of their writing is for academic journals. Do journals matter? At a minimum (I [...]
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Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is a principal outlet for political economy articles in Australia. It has been running for over thirty years and has a strong reputation for providing alternatives to mainstream economics, presenting analyses of Australian and [...]
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