Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry

Andreas Bieler | March 24, 2026

How can we dissect the conjunctural appearances of crisis from the deep structural conditions of crisis shaping global capitalism today?

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Back to the pre-monetarist orthodoxy?

David Richardson | March 17, 2026

On 12 February the Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Sarah Hunter, gave an important speech on the relationship between the labour market and inflation. This speech suggests the RBA has re-thought its position and has partially gone back to an earlier orthodoxy, but in so [...]

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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

Andreas Bieler | Vincenzo Maccarrone | March 10, 2026

How is the European polycrisis inflected through the classed, raced, gendered and environmental conditions of global capitalism today?

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Deweaponizing Interdependence

Jamie Morgan | Heikki Patomäki | March 2, 2026

Against a backdrop of various disintegrative tendencies, our new book Deweaponizing Interdependence: Bringing the Idea of International Clearing Union into the Twenty-First Century reintroduces the concept of an International Clearing Union (ICU) and offers an important overview of critical [...]

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RBA Must Not Repeat its Post-COVID Errors

Jim Stanford | February 23, 2026

Inflation took a surprising and unwelcome jump in Australia in the final months of 2025. After peaking at almost 8% year-over-year in late 2022, inflation rapidly declined – reflecting both the repair of supply chains after the pandemic, and the chilling effects of 13 interest rate hikes [...]

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E. H. Carr and F. A. Hayek: the road to international order

Adam David Morton | February 16, 2026

What does Hayek have to say that may interest approaches to the political economy of state formation and thinking on ‘the international’ today?

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US military invasion of Venezuela: How did we get here?

Emma To | February 11, 2026

Firstly, what has happened?

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped and flown to the US through a US military operation which involved attacks on the Venezuelan military bases in Fuerte Tiuna [...]

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