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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Back in 2013 (and in a series of other posts), I have argued that neoliberalism (including so-called “left neoliberalism,” as espoused by Hillary Clinton and her new runnning-mate Tim Kaine) is not a unified period or stage of capitalism but, rather, a project to remake the world. Therefore, [...]
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The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney was very pleased to host a well-attended and thought-provoking seminar with Simon Springer, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, on 14 July 2016.
Today we are posting a video [...]
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Neoliberalism has become a popular but troubled term to characterise our age. Since the 1980s, within many fields of the social sciences, but also extending into public debates, this expression has been called upon to symbolise, clarify or, through normative inflections, denounce a whole [...]
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Elizabeth Humphrys (University of Technology Sydney), 'Australia under the Accord (1983-1996): Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism'
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The academy is rooted in the axiom of the supremacy of reason.
Let us note that, in reality, academic ‘reasoning’ is typically paradigm-bound. Thus the conscientious rigorous academic will likely be engaging in a process of constrained ‘rationality’, never raising the head above the [...]
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What do we mean when we call an idea or policy ‘neoliberal’? Does the term signify anything other than trends which are simply embedded in the process of capitalist development? Is it at all useful? That’s right – yet another article trying to figure out exactly what this ‘neoliberalism’ [...]
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Detroit has been famous for a long time for all the wrong reasons. Once the fourth great city of American Empire, the city has been wrecked by decades of deindustrialisation, depopulation and racial segregation. By 2013, about 50 percent of the population lived in poverty—an astonishing rise [...]
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