The Journal of Australian Political Economy has a long-standing commitment to publishing articles on the evolving political economic conditions and challenges in Australia and the world economy. This ongoing concern is evident in the contents of the latest issue.
Each article directly [...]
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Reflecting on the political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Jürgen Habermas suggested that ‘existential uncertainty is now spreading globally and simultaneously […] There was never so much knowing about our not-knowing and about the constraint to act and live in [...]
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The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’: Socio-Spatial Struggles in London between the ‘Merely Wealthy’ and the ‘Super-Rich’
In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This lecture is about how the actions of the [...]
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‘Keeping up with Our Rated Selves: On Credit, Sharing, and Self-Esteem’
The renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, Michel Feher, will present a double-lecture on the social and affective implications of the increasing assetisation of the economy.
If governing [...]
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Join us at Gleebooks for the launch of three ground-breaking books on the contemporary assetisation of the economy on Monday 15 April 2019 at 6:30pm.
1) Michel Feher’s Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
The hegemony of finance compels a new [...]
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A Debate Between Jim Stanford and Michel Feher
The deleterious social consequence of the contemporary asset economy are well-documented. Households are shouldering levels of mortgage debt that appear increasingly unsustainable both to themselves and the wider economy. Alternatively, a [...]
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In a famous passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, the following exchange takes place between Alice and Humpty Dumpty:
`I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice [...]
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