For several years now the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been responding to declining levels of enrolments in the study of economics by diligently extolling the personal and societal benefits of studying economics and by producing research on the topic of falling enrolments. For [...]
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This is the second of two posts on how we are forever enmeshed in relationships, in all aspects of our lives, that continually (re)shape, (re)produce, and (re)envision how we practise our craft. The first discussed the important role played by my students across the 2010s in educating me [...]
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This post, and the future post that will soon be published here on Progress in Political Economy, are about how we, as individuals or as specific groups of co-authors, are those whose names are on the articles, chapters, reports and books that are part and parcel of academic work. Yet, while [...]
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Just starting to write an essay or a thesis on a topic in political economy? Or thinking about putting together an article for an academic journal? Maybe something shorter for a broader audience? Of course, whatever you are planning, you need to have something significant to say, but you [...]
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This post was originally published in 2012 as part of the hosting of Rodric Braithwaite as a guest speaker at the University of Nottingham. Although it is less about radical economics pedagogy, it is reproduced here as it is often used in my teaching to exemplify different ways of [...]
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During the Spring semester 2019, students on the module Globalisation and Resistance in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham-UK carried out independent research projects. In addition to writing a 4,000 word essay, they also composed [...]
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A manifesto is a statement or declaration that describes the injustices of the world and outlines a program of the kinds of changes that should take place within it. People throughout history have written manifestos, from the Cartagena Manifesto by South American independence leader Simón [...]
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In September 2018, a Teaching Political Economy workshop was held at the University of Warwick, sponsored by the BISA International Political Economy Group and Warwick’s Department of Politics and International Studies. Participants from fifteen different institutions gathered to discuss [...]
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