Australia’s political and economic system is built on exploitation. From the violent foundational occupation of Indigenous lands, to the ongoing denial of Indigenous sovereignty over those lands; from the destructive extraction of natural resources, to the profound devaluation of the care work [...]
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The mission of D-Econ (Diversifying and Decolonising Economics) is to promote inclusivity within the content and institutions of the economics discipline due to the dominance of Eurocentric thinking. This situation has occurred because of the longstanding exclusion of alternate views—based on [...]
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What is political economy? How is political economy different from conventional economics? Why choose to study political economy? What’s it like to be a political economy student? Where can political economy take you in your life and career?
For Open Day 2021, current and former [...]
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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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