Unpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia
Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in [...]
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It was exciting to hear last week that Progress in Political Economy (PPE) had been announced as the winner of the 2016 Best Blog (Group) Award by the Online Media Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA), which is supported by Sage. Announced at the ISA’s annual convention, in [...]
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This guy [Trump] probably knows where Stoke-on-Trent is, where UKIP is trying to beat Labour in a highly contested byelection. I would not be surprised if in his office, they are discussing what is happening, in this tiny beleaguered town that Adam comes from, right now
— Paul Mason, [...]
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This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.
Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]
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Whether you are a new reader of Progress in Political Economy (PPE), or a visitor that regards us as “appointment reading” along with your morning coffee and toast, we have reached a milestone with this blog post in that we have now published over 400 contributions to the [...]
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Following my practice last year, I have listed my “novel” reading for 2016. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling on those airplane journeys from/to Sydney outside of my “normal” [...]
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Gareth Bryant’s article ‘“Fixing” the Climate Crisis: Capital, States and Carbon Offsetting in India’ (co-authored with Siddhartha Dabhi and Steffen Böhm), published in Environment and Planning A was voted the winner of the 2016 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) — [...]
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As part of his speaking commitments ahead of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) conference hosted at La Trobe University, Alan Knight (Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford) gave two talks at the University of Sydney.
The first was on ‘The Great Depression in [...]
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