Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake [...]
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Intersections of finance and society 2017
2-3 November 2017
City, University of London, UK
Organised in association with the Finance and Society Network at the University of Sydney and the City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC) at City University [...]
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Unpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia
Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in [...]
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The Coalition government’s “Jobs and Growth” agenda is already in big trouble, only months after serving as the centerpiece of its reelection campaign. Australia lost 34,000 full-time jobs last year, underemployment is at record levels, and GDP growth has slipped into negative [...]
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Here is the digital audio recording of a research seminar presentation made by Dr Johnna Montgomerie (Goldsmith’s University of London) to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham on 14 November 2016.
The title of the talk was [...]
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In the preface to the 1872 French edition of the first volume of Capital, Marx warned those readers who zealously seek the truth that ‘there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits’. In [...]
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When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was negotiated in 1947, it would have been essentially inconceivable to all those involved that when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization (WTO) 48 years later, the multilateral trading system constituted by the latter [...]
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“Did you know that approximately 3 million Australians – around 16.9% of the adult population – are either fully or severely excluded from obtaining credit from the banks?” So asks the peak body representing Australia’s payday lenders as part of their Small Loans Big Need [...]
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