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Call For Nominations For The 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Journal Article Prize

Ainsley Elbra | August 13, 2025

We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize. The prize is awarded annually for the best article published in the broad field of International Political Economy (IPE) by [...]

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50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Frank Stilwell | August 12, 2025

The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sydney, campaigning for a PE course that students could take as an alternative to mainstream [...]

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2025 Wheelwright Lecture | Raewyn Connell | Should we abolish universities?

Gareth Bryant | August 11, 2025

In the last generation there has been heavy criticism of what universities have become, in an era of commercialism and managerial control. This lecture will discuss the main points of criticism, whether they amount to a case for abolition, and what practical processes of abolition are under way.

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State Capitalist Mutations under Trump 2.0

Ilias Alami | August 7, 2025

Economic historians may thus remember Trump 2.0 as the great accelerator of 21st-century state capitalism, a historically specific form of capitalism whereby the fusion of private and state capital reaches new heights.

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Fear, solidarity, courage and the war on education

Damien Cahill | July 30, 2025

Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear shaping today's war on education?

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The Corporate Prince: Neoliberalism’s Drive to Privatise Power

Thabo Huntgeburth | July 15, 2025

How is neoliberalism safeguarding capital accumulation through the continuous privatisation of economic control? Reflecting on this question during my PhD research leads me to consider the role of the Corporate Prince in twenty-first century capitalism.

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The Political Economy of Palestine Reading Group

Elliot Dolan-Evans | Sophie Cotton | July 8, 2025

The purpose of The Political Economy of Palestine Reading Group is to develop interest, knowledge, understanding, and expertise in the various and diverse political economy dilemmas and crises that relate to Palestine.

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Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance

Gareth Bryant | July 2, 2025

International Political Economy (IPE) as a discipline increasingly acknowledges the significance of racial oppression and inequalities. Yet these are often seen as separate from, or coinciding with, financial hierarchies and power structures. What does the notion of 'raced finance' offer?

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