Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy and state capitalism. What's at stake in the mixed economy debate?
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What is the 34th book chosen for the Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney?
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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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So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading? My use of the term “novel” reading is loosely adopted, as you will see from the list below.
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How might the critique of the scientific method in Herman Meville's Moby Dick be related to a reading of Antonio Gramsci or Edward Said in some of their combined reflections on science and the exploitation and examination of society and nature?
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The conjucture of the first few decades of the twenty-first century witnessed Alex Callinicos usefully mapping the contours of imperialism as set out in his pivotal book Imperialism and Global Political Economy. As somewhat of a successor text, this is now accompanied by The New Age of [...]
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My "novel" reading in 2023 focusing on the monstrosity of capitalism and the monster-stories in the making of capital, combining political economy and literary theory.
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For our last Political Economy seminar in 2023, three recent doctoral graduates will illuminate the diverse applications and insights offered by a political economy approach. From Latin America to East Asia, via Sydney, these three papers will explore the intersections of political economy [...]
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