This post is an abridged excerpt from the Introduction to Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings’ new book, Neoliberalism, published as part of Polity’s ‘Key Concepts’ series.
There is a book launch at Gleebooks (Thursday 23 November, 6:00pm), 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney, NSW 2037. [...]
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Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings, Neoliberalism: Key Concepts
‘For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now – more than ever – under [...]
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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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