I am thrilled to accept the University of Sydney’s recent invitation to serve as an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Economy. I have a long and collegial association with the Department – including delivering the second Ted Wheelwright lecture in 2009 (on the Global [...]
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By giving a small number of relatively well-off Australians a tax cut the Treasurer has undermined revenue and helped contribute to inequality, as detailed in this post that originally appeared on New Matilda.
For someone who piously bemoans an “us versus them” mentality in political [...]
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In the lead-up to today’s pre-election Commonwealth budget, much has been written about the need to quickly eliminate the government’s deficit, and reduce its accumulated debt. The standard shibboleths are invoked liberally: government must face hard truths and learn to live within [...]
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Elizabeth Humphrys (University of Technology Sydney), 'Australia under the Accord (1983-1996): Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism'
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Many people associate the beginning of neoliberalism with the election of conservative governments influenced by the New Right and theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. A useful question to ask, then, is why didn’t the vanguard neoliberal period commence during Australia’s [...]
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In a recent article and book chapter – Kanishka Jayasuriya and I outlined a distinctive approach to the analysis of the Australia-China relationship – a state transformation perspective – that goes beyond the dominant international relations problematic on this [...]
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Mike Beggs (University of Sydney), 'Inflation and the Making of Macroeconomic Policy in Australia'
This is the fifth seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
8 October 2015, [...]
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I recently spoke at the Greens.Reboot.Future conference at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on a climate change panel with Leslie Hughes from the Climate Council and Nikola Casule from Greenpeace. The conference brought together Greens members, community activists and speakers from [...]
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