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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How is the European polycrisis inflected through the classed, raced, gendered and environmental conditions of global capitalism today?
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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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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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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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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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What are the main drivers behind the rise of Regenerative Agriculture linked to powerful agri-food corporations? This blog post presents my new research recently published in the journal Globalizations and awarded the 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard [...]
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From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and violence?
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More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?
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