Donna Baines and Stephen McBride’s co-edited book Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance addresses one of the most important issues of current political economy in western societies: austerity, the policy of cutting state budgets to promote growth, has been the preferred policy in [...]
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I think the left should stop talking about ‘neoliberalism’, as I argue in a recent journal article published in Capital & Class.
I should first acknowledge that others, not properly referenced here, have said similar things more eloquently than I am capable. But I hope I can make [...]
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To-date, political economy scholarship has only cautiously engaged with matters of moral economy in contemporary society. This is strikingly different from the recent surge in respective scholarship and debates in anthropology and sociology. The moral properties of capitalist economy at a [...]
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The following is the text of a presentation I gave on 9 March as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’.
If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’ [or directive: [...]
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It is not every day that political economists get into direct dialogue with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But it happened recently as a result of an article appearing in the Journal of Australian Political Economy. Written by UK political economists, Alex Nunn and Paul White, the [...]
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Kean Birch (York University, Canada)
Title: Contract, Contract Law, and their Implications for Neoliberalism as a Concept
Abstract: Contractual relations underpin markets, although different analytical perspectives define contracts in very different ways: e.g. economists define [...]
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The certainties that used to hold neoliberalism together are melting into the air: the common sense of the age has degenerated into clichés. Tried and tested policies such as privatisation, marketisation and trade liberalisation have lost traction, and established political systems are [...]
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There is an emerging body of literature questioning the usefulness of the term ‘neoliberalism’. This work has highlighted the tendency for new analysis to simply add another yet more precise definition of neoliberalism in an effort — as Rajesh Venugopal says — ‘to refine, complicate and [...]
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