Democratic economic planning and ecological transition

Michael Beggs | October 26, 2026

This seminar considers the ecological and systemic arrangements for a postcapitalist political economy.

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Green central banking

Kardelen Günaydin | February 11, 2025

Climate crisis and environmental degradation is an undeniable reality for most central banks around the world. What does the most recent central bank coalition, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), bring to the conversation?

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Climate, Class & Empire: Towards an Ecology of Revolution

Jason W. Moore | May 7, 2024

Interview with Jason W. Moore by Gennaro Avallone on Oltre la giustizia climatica: Verso un’ecologia della rivoluzione [Beyond Climate Justice: Towards an Ecology of Revolution] (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2024).

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Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

Anna Sturman | September 28, 2021

I have the distinctly nerve-wracking pleasure of being the resident ecosocialist* charged with writing up a review of Kohei Saito’s Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (hereafter KME), the latest academic tome read by the Past & Present [...]

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What is ‘ecological economics’ and why do we need to talk about it?

Anitra Nelson | November 7, 2019

Anitra Nelson, RMIT University and Brian Coffey, RMIT University

This article is part of a series on rebalancing the human–nature interactions that are central to the study and practice of ecological economics, which is the focus of the 2019 ANZSEE Conference in Melbourne [...]

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Accumulation in a Post-Industrial Ecology

Ariel Salleh | May 30, 2019

Review of: Pamela Odih, Adsensory Urban Ecology (2 vols.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. HB 978-1-5275-2468-2

This is raw political economy. Odih, a teacher at Goldsmiths, befriends neighbours of the Grenfell Tower fire; ill-fated trees of the Thames bank; the [...]

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On the Violent Abstraction of Nature

Adam David Morton | April 30, 2019

It was E.P. Thompson who stated, in The Making of the English Working Class, that:

When we encounter some sonorous phrase such as “the strong ebb and flow of the trade cycle” we must be put on our guard. For behind this trade cycle there is a structure of social relations, [...]

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Technics and Transition: Australian Renewable Energy in World-Systemic Context

Andrew Brodzeli | April 12, 2018

Near-consensus about our critically ill climate and the culpability of fossil-fuels is no longer enough to compel rapid energy transition – last year, Australia’s carbon emissions rose once again. Clearly, something is amiss in how we socially organise. Relying on technological breakthrough [...]

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