I find the constant coining of new terms tiresome. But in writing Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy, I felt the need to re-define my nonmarket socialist position in a more constructive and less reactive way as ‘real valuism’, with ‘real value’ as a basic economic term. I hasten to add [...]
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Sirens of our times are pregnant with urgency — unprecedented floods, fires, species extinctions and the Covid-19 pandemic — all linked one way or the other with capitalism, global heating and the ways we live. In 2020, I published my most successful article to date, if success can be [...]
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The idea of a ‘reconstructed social democracy’ is at the core of Australian economist Mike Berry’s most recent work, which highlights the principle of justice. Here justice is a pair of scales balancing — on the one side and the other — workers versus capitalist owners and managers, the [...]
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Degrowth is on the agenda as a set of theories increasingly encountered in scholarly articles and books as well as activist journalism. Yet degrowth is a much maligned and misinterpreted concept and approach, and is especially difficult for economists to handle. Is that because using money [...]
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Anitra Nelson, RMIT University and Brian Coffey, RMIT University
This article is part of a series on rebalancing the human–nature interactions that are central to the study and practice of ecological economics, which is the focus of the 2019 ANZSEE Conference in Melbourne [...]
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Call for participants for the ANZSEE 2019
Ecological Economics: Solutions Now and in the Future conference
The 2019 Australia New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics conference will address the great challenges of our times: environmental crises and how we can live [...]
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In capitalism, i.e. ‘growth’ economies, housing (construction) is a significant — even leading — economic sector and area of social concern. Moreover, housing exposes many of the weaknesses of capitalism from crises of over-production, financialisation, inappropriate supply, over-consumption [...]
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The ‘housing question’ to which Engels famously contributed and that raged in the 1870s in Germany, has returned, especially in global cities, such as Sydney and Melbourne. Such challenges are often framed as ‘unmet demand’ with calls to stimulate housing supply yet price trends are more [...]
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