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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Rowan Cahill | April 28, 2026
Rowan Cahill offers details and a short overview of his latest book Cold War Kid: Resisting the Vietnam War to be launched 29 May 2026 at Gleebooks in Sydney, register for free in the blog post's link.
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When the world changes, economic policy must too
Gareth Bryant | Ben Spies-Butcher | April 21, 2026
On 12 October 1929, James Scullin led the Labor Party to what was then its largest ever majority. It was unfortunate timing. Over the 1920s Australian governments had become the largest borrowers on the London money markets. In 1925, the United Kingdom returned to the gold standard. And then [...]
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