Recently, economic growth as a policy goal has (again) become highly controversial. Not only are welfare economists increasingly questioning the universal merits of maximising growth, since more GDP does not seem to lead to better lives for most people, but environmentalists and ecological [...]
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Global businesses, many of them now larger and more powerful than nation states, exhibit enormous sway on humanity’s response to the climate crisis. Indeed, during the Paris climate talks in December last year, growing media focus centred on business “leadership” on climate change. For [...]
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Recently I learned that my book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism has been awarded the Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award, sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute at Arizona State University. The award is given each year to “a non-fiction work that exemplifies transdisciplinary, [...]
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First appearing on the academic and journalistic site The Conversation, this piece has received over 18,000 direct hits to raise the profile of two already prominent authors exploring the new power geometries of the drug wars in Mexico.
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The annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright (pictured in set image) played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia at the University of Sydney. Previous Wheelwright Lectures have been given by [...]
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For thirty-odd years, American historian Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh) has been writing about the sea, deep-sea sailing ships, seafaring proletariats, and seafaring rebels, during the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries. Internationally, his landmark study of [...]
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My book on The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis has been published by Routledge in their RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. The book is trying to apply a Marxist understanding of capitalism to the recent crisis. It is making an argument that we need theory but cannot [...]
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