Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear shaping today's war on education?
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Book launch for Wrong Way: How Privatisation & Economic Reform Backfired, edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner
Since the 1980s, successive waves of ‘economic reform’ have radically changed the Australian economy. We have seen privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and [...]
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For many years I’ve taught a unit called ‘The Social Foundations of Modern Capitalism’ in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Its premise is that capitalism is a socially embedded system of value production. The unit encourages students to examine some of the [...]
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Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings, Neoliberalism: Key Concepts
‘For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now – more than ever – under [...]
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IIPPE 7th International Conference in Political Economy
‘Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences’
School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal
September 7-9, 2016
Call for Papers
‘The Political Economy of EU: [...]
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This academic trailer features Damien Cahill’s The End of Laissez-Faire?: On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism, which is a major intervention in debates on the ideas-centred assumptions within political economy that offers an alternative stance on the class relations, [...]
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This is a modified version of the talk I gave at the Sydney and Naples launches of my book, The End of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism.
The genesis of this book was my dissatisfaction with dominant accounts of the global financial crisis and its implications [...]
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Call for Papers — Neoliberalism since the Crisis
University of Leeds, 9-11 September 2015
This is a call for papers for a series of panels on ‘Neoliberalism since the Crisis’, being oganised by Damien Cahill and Alfredo Saad-Filho as part of the International [...]
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