The history and future of the tax state II: Financialisation of the state and fiscal hybridity

Ben Spies-Butcher | Gareth Bryant | June 6, 2023

COVID-19 temporarily re-made fiscal politics. States responded to the health threat by enacting a sudden and far-reaching contraction of the private sector, partly compensated by an unprecedented expansion of the public sector. The moves proved temporary, with a swift return to fiscal and [...]

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Seminar: Jamie Martin, ‘The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance’

Gareth Bryant | May 31, 2023

Political Economy Seminar

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

Presenter: Jamie Martin, Harvard University

Date: Friday 23 June 2023

Time: 11am (Sydney/Australian Eastern Time)

Online: Please join via [...]

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Norms in a Post-Hegemonic World Order

Jack Taggart | Kavi Joseph Abraham | May 30, 2023

Multistakeholder partnerships are characterized by institutional elements such as informality, voluntarism, and corporate partnerships which some commentators, like Nick Buxton, consider the "default mode of global decision-making." The rapid expansion and influence of multi-stakeholder [...]

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CfP Dancing the Dialectic

Adam David Morton | May 19, 2023

If you are interested in joining this panel, please send through your proposed abstract (maximum 200 words), title (maximum 50 words) and three keywords to Alejandro Colás (A.Colas@bbk.ac.uk) or Adam David Morton (Adam.Morton@sydney.edu.au) by 11:59pm 28 May (AET).

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4 Talking Points from Karl Marx’s Grundrisse

Janet Burstall | May 16, 2023

The Value, Health and Radical Needs Reading Group spent 15 months slowly and carefully reading Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. The task was certainly daunting, but also intellectually rewarding in equal measure. Since in these notebooks Marx is clearly developing a logical method of presentation that [...]

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Towards a ‘field theory’ of global political economy

Heikki Patomäki | May 9, 2023

In 1976, Robert Gilpin distinguished three contrasting political economy perspectives: liberalism, Marxism, and mercantilism. Gilpin introduced these International Relations-derived categories as theories and ideologies of political economy, sometimes conceived either as explanatory models or [...]

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The history and future of the tax state I: Fiscal accounting and capitalist change

Ben Spies-Butcher | Gareth Bryant | May 4, 2023

Political economists often place the state at the centre of explanations of change in capitalism. The emergence of a ‘welfare’ or ‘nation building’ state during the twentieth century reflects the advance of democratic movements and Keynesian inspired macroeconomic management. More recently [...]

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