What is political economy? How is political economy different from conventional economics? Why choose to study political economy? What’s it like to be a political economy student? Where can political economy take you in your life and career?
For Open Day 2021, current and former [...]
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The final volume in the five-part series of Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism delivers eleven chapters with a total of nine of those tackling difference aspects of state power and transnational capital. In this edition ‘nodes of capital’ are therefore treated through a [...]
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The overriding commonality underpinning the third volume in the series of five volumes of Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism is the context of gender, race, and imperialism with the latter addressed both in relation to internal colonialism within the country itself [...]
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In 1975 E. L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright commenced a series of edited volumes entitled Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism. In the following link we provide full and searchable access to the PDF of Volume 1 in ESSAYS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITALISM. The ambition [...]
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The rent-seeking argument emerging out of the progressive side of the mainstream economics community runs something like this: the top 1% are socially unproductive and receive obscene amounts of money by securing themselves into positions of ownership that permit them to misappropriate [...]
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In the preface to the 1872 French edition of the first volume of Capital, Marx warned those readers who zealously seek the truth that ‘there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits’. In [...]
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