Review of Anne Applebaum, ‘Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism’

Andrew Urie | July 29, 2021

I suppose that many people throughout the world were, whether they realized it at the time or not, Fukuyamaists in roughly the first decade following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During this period, it really did seem like a nascent spirit of neoliberal modernity was spreading [...]

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Political Economy of Development in Palestine: A Critical Perspective

Alaa Tartir | July 27, 2021

Political economy is concerned with institutions, relations of power, and social conflict and struggle. A key task of political economy is to historicize and (re)politicize economics, as politics and economics are deeply inter-related and reside in (and emerge from) particular social, spatial, [...]

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Inside the struggle for water sovereignty in Brazil

Caitlin Schroering | July 22, 2021

Todos somos atingidos (“We are all affected”)

— Common MAB saying

A person can go a few weeks without food, years without proper shelter, but only a few days without water. Water is fundamental, yet we often forget how much we rely on it. Only 37 percent of the world’s rivers [...]

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Justice and Democracy: A book review

Anitra Nelson | July 20, 2021

The idea of a ‘reconstructed social democracy’ is at the core of Australian economist Mike Berry’s most recent work, which highlights the principle of justice. Here justice is a pair of scales balancing — on the one side and the other — workers versus capitalist owners and managers, the [...]

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What is wrong with the Reserve Bank’s push to encourage the study of economics?

Tim Thornton | July 15, 2021

For several years now the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been responding to declining levels of enrolments in the study of economics by diligently extolling the personal and societal benefits of studying economics and by producing research on the topic of falling enrolments. For [...]

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Join the new PPE mailing list!

Adam David Morton | Gareth Bryant | July 14, 2021

We are excited to report that PPE has a new mailing list! Sign up below to get an email every time we publish a new post (usually about twice per week).

This mailing list will replace our old mailing list service, which was down for a while, and will stop working soon. If you were [...]

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How private wealth can be employed to re-orient sustainability

Susan Schroeder | July 13, 2021

Around the globe governments spent massively to soften the effects of Covid-19 on their economies.  They spent a combined total of $16 trillion in the year to April 2021, according to the International Monetary Fund.  As a result, debt-to-GDP ratios have risen.  Globally, the debt-to-GDP [...]

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Rural women’s resistance to neoliberal agricultural reform: the women of Monaragala Sri Lanka

Buddhima Padmasiri | Samanthi Gunawardana | July 8, 2021

Although often depicted as victims of climate change, poverty, land dispossession or gendered violence, rural women from agrarian communities are active political agents who seek to dismantle gendered relations and structures of colonial power. From countries in Latin America, South Asia, [...]

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