Open Letter: The Coalition’s Nuclear Plan Doesn’t Add Up—Spend the Money on Household Clean Energy Instead

Gareth Bryant | April 20, 2025

In the wake of the Government's announcement of its Cheaper Home Batteries Program, 60 Australian economists have signed a letter comparing the economic consequences of pursuing nuclear energy against those of subsidising distributed clean energy technologies, including batteries. The [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | April 15, 2025

What is the 34th book chosen for the Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney?

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The problem of ‘productivity’

Phillip Toner | April 14, 2025

The concept of productivity, including those for labour, capital and multi-factor productivity (MFP) are central to economic discussion about national economic performance, government policy and income distribution. There is common agreement that productivity growth has been, and remains, [...]

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Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency

Tim Thornton | March 21, 2025

I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, Summer 2024/2025). While it is great to open this sort of debate, it is crucial, first and foremost, to clarify what is being argued. My [...]

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Seminar: Sahil Dutta, ‘The making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’’

Gareth Bryant | March 12, 2025

The making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’

Tuesday 25 March, 1.00pm-2:30 pm, 2025

Room 341, Level 3, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney

Speaker: Dr Sahil Dutta

For a [...]

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Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question

Stuart Elden | Adam David Morton | March 11, 2025

What was ‘the Lukács Question’? Sometimes referred to as a ‘debate’ or an ‘affair’, the Lukács question was a reference in the 1950s to the resurfacing of attacks on Georg Lukács under the shadow of Stalinism, something that attracted the attention of Henri Lefebvre.

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What political economy approach for the 21st century?

Andreas Bieler | February 25, 2025

What political economy approach can reveal the internal relations of exploitation and expropriation through a focus on related class struggles and broader alliances across the spheres of production and social reproduction?

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