2017 Political Economy Seminar Series
Bill Dunn (University of Sydney), ‘Marx, Keynes, and the classics: Towards a theory of unemployment that is both general and specific’Date: Thursday 23 March 2017
Time: 4pm-5.30pm
Location: Darlington Centre [...]
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Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 November 2017 Holme Building | University of Sydney
Organised by the Sydney Environment Institute
Call for papers
In 1997, the University of Melbourne hosted a major international conference on ‘Environmental Justice: Global [...]
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2017 Political Economy Seminar Series
Nicola Piper and Matt Withers (University of Sydney), ‘Temporary Labour Migration in Asia: Protracted Precarity and Truncated Rights’Date: Thursday 9 March 2017
Time: 4pm-5.30pm
Location: Darlington Centre [...]
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Kean Birch (York University, Canada)
Title: Contract, Contract Law, and their Implications for Neoliberalism as a Concept
Abstract: Contractual relations underpin markets, although different analytical perspectives define contracts in very different ways: e.g. economists define [...]
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Paul Mason Public Talk: Can Robots Kill Capitalism?
Co-presented by the Department of Political Economy, the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), Sydney Ideas and the Greens Political Education Trust
“The British miners had to be smashed so that we could have [...]
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The Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Jason W. Moore’s major new book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015). The book provided very fertile ground for lively and critical discussions on [...]
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Alan Knight (Oxford University), ‘The great depression in Latin America, 1930-1940’
This is the eighth and final instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, in association with the Institute of Latin American [...]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for presentation at this workshop that will bring together leading scholars working at the interface between GPN analysis and global labour issues to galvanize the debate on the social implications of GPN, and to gain strategic insights on what [...]
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