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Valuation is political

Gareth Bryant | Claire Parfitt | October 10, 2022

In the right-wing backlash against environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, everyone is accusing everyone else of placing politics over financial returns. The ESG vs anti-ESG debate has led various commentators to argue that ESG investing should be split into purely risk-based and [...]

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Beyond greenwashing: The hollow foundations of ethical capital

Claire Parfitt | July 21, 2022

ESG investment funds, which claim to invest according to environmental, social and governance criteria, grew to almost US$3 trillion in 2021.  With a 53% increase since 2020, this made ESG the fastest growing sector of the asset management industry. The rapid flow of funds into ESG [...]

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Whose ethics? Whose risk? The politics of ESG investing

Claire Parfitt | April 13, 2021

“How green is your pension?” asked the Financial Times a few weeks ago, opening up a series of issues for readers to consider such as: How are you incorporating your ethics into your personal investment strategy? How are you managing financial, as well as other risks, as you look to the [...]

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Are we the masters of our (financial) destiny?

Claire Parfitt | September 19, 2019

After the largest correction in 40 years, house prices are rising again in Sydney and Melbourne, two of the world’s most unaffordable cities. Along with private pension savings, real estate investments (including the family home) are central to a dignified life in retirement for workers in [...]

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Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time

Claire Parfitt | April 21, 2017

Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time

Concurrently in Perth – Melbourne – Sydney

Friday 1st December, 2017

Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, [...]

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Compromised in Crisis: A Greek tragedy or real politik?

Claire Parfitt | August 7, 2015

Compromised in Crisis: A Greek tragedy or real politik?

When: Wednesday 19 August, 4:30-6:00pm

Where: New Law Annexe, Room 346, University of Sydney

A public forum organised by the Department of Political Economy on the current crisis in Greece, featuring Professor Aspromourgos [...]

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Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All

Claire Parfitt | November 10, 2014

Financialisation, though nebulous, emerging and highly contested, is a concept that contemporary political economists can ill afford to ignore. Staff and research students in the University of Sydney’s Past & Present reading group chose the latest book by Costas Lapavitsas as a basis for [...]

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Who is responsible for ethical risk? Workers’ capital and dilemmas for ethical investment campaigns

Claire Parfitt | September 22, 2014

Pension funds are big money. Sometimes referred to as workers’ capital, these funds control around US$30 trillion globally. Australia, with its compulsory superannuation scheme, accounts for almost AU$2 trillion. By 2030, Australian superannuation funds are predicted to control some AU$6 [...]

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    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
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    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
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    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
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