What are the philosophical and empirical dimensions of the association of neoliberalism with free markets and why are they so hard to shake off? My latest articles argue that we need to dispel the neoliberalism = free markets couplet and re-evaluate how we assess neoliberalism.
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Launch of Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state Speakers: Phillip Toner and Michael Rafferty Thursday 5 September 2024, 1:30-2:30 pm Room 341, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney Please join Phil Toner, Mike Rafferty and contributors for a seminar [...]
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In a recent paper in Journal of Economic Issues, I explore a particularly interesting variant on the problem of unexplored normativity, politicisation and its ethical consequences. Put simply, standard theory of tax evasion inadvertently treats everyone as a criminal. Moreover, while recent [...]
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My recent book Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness, which is published as part of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) Series with Goldsmiths Press, is an attempt to articulate a particular form of existential entrapment within contemporary capitalism. I [...]
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ARTS AND CULTURAL POLICY is in a deep crisis in Australia. And it’s not just because of the pandemic or years of cuts. The fundamental basis of this crisis is generally accepted and is not of the arts and cultural sector’s making. For decades governments have imposed a logic of market [...]
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The ascendency of Prime minister Kishida and his new focus on economic inequality has many wondering whether Japan has reached the final death knell of ‘economic reform’ – a euphemism for the kind of neoliberal policies that may be able to make a dent in the government’s enormous debt. [...]
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The Iranian theocratic state for long has been conceptualised as an ‘exceptional’ entity. Two sets of theorisation have hugely contributed to this understanding. Because the 1979 revolution is mostly interpreted as an ‘exceptional’ revolution that can’t be grasped through classical social [...]
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I suppose that many people throughout the world were, whether they realized it at the time or not, Fukuyamaists in roughly the first decade following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During this period, it really did seem like a nascent spirit of neoliberal modernity was spreading [...]
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