My new book Keynes and Marx attempts a constructive Marxist engagement with Keynes and Keynesianism. I’ll explain what I mean by this and how the book tries to achieve it. Three attitudes dominate Marx-Keynes relations. I argue for a fourth.
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My new edited volume A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy has just been published. The book’s chapters explore different dimensions of political economy and different ways of doing political economy. Issues range across inequality, growth and development, money, trade, land, time [...]
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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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