China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet, there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay [...]
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The recent growth in the scale and different forms of shadow banking and alternative finance mechanisms in China poses many questions of understanding, from its sustainability; different forms of credit growth; to the role of local government financing, and the tensions between financial [...]
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A key ingredient of China’s Post-Mao economic “miracle” is a labour regime entrenched in the export-oriented consumer manufacturing sector and premised on despotic exploitation, institutional discrimination and political exclusion of labour. It is built on the back of massive rural-to-urban [...]
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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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Shahar Hameiri (Murdoch University), 'China's Rise and State Transformation'
This is the second seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
27 August 2015, Darlington Centre [...]
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With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book . The purpose is modest. There is already in existence some rather excellent coverage and detailed engagement with the book both in the general media and on [...]
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