The philosopher Michel Feher is one of the most insightful observers of financialized capitalism writing today. Many English-speaking readers would have first encountered Feher’s thinking with the article “Self-Appreciation: or, the Aspirations of Human Capital,” a masterpiece of [...]
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This interview was conducted by the podcast Political Economy for the End Times, which acts as a platform for discussion of the intersecting crises of contemporary capitalism (follow on Twitter here). In this episode, Werner Bonefeld, Professor of Politics at the University of York and a [...]
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In a previous post we highlighted the distinct historical trajectory of managerial practices of governance and their long lineage back to innovations made in the 1950s US defense sector. We also discussed what were the specific features of the paradigm of managerial governance in order to [...]
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Quantification and control share a long history. As the Harvard Business Review put it in 2012, “You manage what you measure.” And in our age of Big Data, measurement is rife. Whether the GPS trackers measuring the micro-movements of Amazon factory workers or the standardised tests [...]
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In her recent book How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Elizabeth Humphrys challenges the narrative that neoliberalism was generally imposed onto labour by right-wing governments such as the Thatcher [...]
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Fraud is an issue that haunts many contemporary societies around the globe, including in East Africa. I have been researching the topic of economic trickery for over a decade in Uganda, and published a number of articles, books and opinion pieces about the matter.
As many of you might [...]
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Book launch for Wrong Way: How Privatisation & Economic Reform Backfired, edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner
Since the 1980s, successive waves of ‘economic reform’ have radically changed the Australian economy. We have seen privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and [...]
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“Neoliberalism is a slippery concept, meaning different things to different people” (p. 1). Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy’s excellently-edited volume The Handbook of Neoliberalism starts its mission with this nailing definition. Neoliberalism has become one of the concepts [...]
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