The theories of monopoly capitalism and unequal exchange make important contributions to economic theory. They emphasize, respectively, how big companies can use their power over consumers and smaller-firm suppliers, and how rich countries can exploit poorer ones.
Capitalist [...]
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Janaka Biyanwila, ‘Sports and the Global South: Work, Play and Resistance in Sri Lanka’
This talk is about reimagining the pleasures of sports from a Global South perspective. It will explore how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global [...]
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Alf Nilsen (University of Agder)
Political Modernity in the Postcolony: A Perspective from India’s Bhil Heartland
4.00-5.30 Thursday 6th September, Merewether 498
Abstract:
How do we conceptualise political modernity in the contemporary postcolony? [...]
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Chad Satterlee, 'The Institutional Design of Collectivist Political-Economic Systems: Some Open Questions and Working Answers'
The political economy of modern models of collectivist political-economic systems has focused on the mitigation of negative externalities generated through [...]
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Frank Stilwell, 'The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing...'
During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Prominent public figures have described current [...]
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Sarah Kaine, 'Long-term non-market strategies: how platform economy firms create favourable regulatory space'
The proliferation of platform businesses has presented a regulatory challenge in jurisdictions around the world as start-ups have sought to shape the rules that define the [...]
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Rick Kuhn, 'At the length the truth will out' (hopefully): The reception of Henryk Grossman's crisis theory
Henryk Grossman recovered Marx’s theory of economic crisis, based on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, in his best known work, The Law of Accumulation and [...]
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Department of Political Economy Seminar Series
The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions
Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex
Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 5 April
Location: Merewether 426, University of [...]
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