Political Economy: The Social Sciences’ Red Pill

Yanis Varoufakis | May 25, 2016

'Political Economy: The Social Sciences' Red Pill'

This is the video recording of the event surrounding the appointment of Yanis [...]

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Yanis Varoufakis, ‘Political Economy: The Social Sciences’ Red Pill’

Adam David Morton | May 13, 2016

Yanis Varoufakis, 'Political Economy: The Social Sciences' Red Pill'

To mark his appointment as an Honorary Professor within [...]

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IIPPE 7th International Conference in Political Economy

Damien Cahill | February 25, 2016

IIPPE 7th International Conference in Political Economy

‘Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences’

School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal

September 7-9, 2016

Call for Papers

‘The Political Economy of EU: [...]

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Bruno Tinel, ‘Creating a Political Economic Community in France’

Adam David Morton | February 19, 2016

Bruno Tinel (Université Paris), 'Creating a Political Economic Community in France'

This is the first seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Date and Location:

3 March 2016, Darlington Centre [...]

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#TASA2015 and the Case for Political Economy in Our Sociological Imagination

Anoushka Benbow-Buitenhuis | February 8, 2016

In 1959, C. Wright Mills coined the term ‘sociological imagination’ to illustrate how sociologists can provide unique insight via a broad analysis of the social. Via this critical process, we can remove ourselves from everyday life, seeing the social in the personal. The 2015 TASA (The [...]

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16th Basic Income Earth Network Congress, Seoul 7–9 July 2016, Call for Papers

Troy Henderson | February 2, 2016

Basic Income (BI) has been in the news lately. The Swiss are set to vote on a proposal that would pay all citizens US$2,800 a month, trials of the policy in several Dutch cities have commenced, and a major nationwide study has been announced in Finland. We’ve also seen the launch of a new [...]

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Neglected Scholarship

Rowan Cahill | January 29, 2016

Photograph courtesy of Lou Horton

During the Cold War Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was one of Australia’s best known communists. During 1954-55 he was a high profile hostile witness subpoenaed by the partisan Royal Commission on [...]

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Online achievement awards

Adam David Morton | January 19, 2016

Since its launch, over the past 16 months Progress in Political Economy (PPE) has been a collective effort involving nearly 60 authors writing over 200 posts across the range of political economy.

Our current Top Ten posts have a range of figures such as Yanis Varoufakis and Philip [...]

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