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2026 Wheelwright Lecture | Geoff Mann | Climates of Uncertainty

Adam David Morton | July 22, 2026

What can the ways we wrestle with uncertain futures—like climate models, prediction markets, high-tech promises, or reactionary revanchism—tell us about a world without a “normal”? 

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When Violence Works: Capital Accumulation and Political Order in Colombia

Manuela Mahecha Alzate | July 7, 2026

Did Colombia achieve economic success despite armed conflict and paramilitary violence? Or were they part of the same political-economic order?

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The Bailout State

Martijn Konings | June 30, 2026

How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?

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Japan’s New Arms Exports Double Down on a Broken Economic Model

Luciano Carment | June 24, 2026

What are the paradoxes at the heart of the "new" Japanese arms trade?

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New Issue of JAPE: Teaching Political Economy

Gareth Bryant | Luciano Carment | Frank Stilwell | June 16, 2026

The usual focus of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is research – its framings, its findings, and the implications of the knowledge that the research generates. This issue of the journal is different because its focus is on teaching.

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The recollections of a Cold War Kid

Brett Heino | June 1, 2026

I have written many book reviews before, but this is the first time I have ever reviewed a memoir, Rowan Cahill's Cold War Kid: Resisting the Vietnam War (Kembla Books, 2026).

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | May 11, 2026

Details on the "when" and the "where" for the commencement of our collective reading of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (Part I), the so-called fourth volume of Capital.

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Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism: A General Theory

Neil Maclean | May 5, 2026

What is the inner connection between the form of law and the commodity form to produce a commodity-form theory of law?

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