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COVID-19, the economy and labour: Equality and sustainability

Elizabeth Humphrys | July 2, 2020

Just published in the Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR), and available open access, is a paper looking at the early impacts of COVID-19 in Australia and internationally. Written by researchers across health, economics and labour, the article emphasises that the impacts of the [...]

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Playdough Capitalism

Elizabeth Humphrys | January 11, 2018

When he visited Sydney a few years ago I met Bill Carroll, Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria in Canada. We talked about teaching political economy and, in particular, how he taught Marx’s theoretical concepts. Carroll told me about an experiential classroom exercise [...]

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Take a Walk Around Your Neighbourhood

Elizabeth Humphrys | August 31, 2017

Take A Walk

In the first chapter of Economics for Everyone, Jim Stanford argues that although economics is often presented as fiendishly complex, it should be a more straightforward matter. He argues that it is not something made up of arcane numbers abstracted from the daily lives of [...]

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Morbid Symptoms

Elizabeth Humphrys | March 20, 2017

The following is the text of a presentation I gave on 9 March as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’.

If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’ [or directive: [...]

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Is the term neoliberalism useful?

Elizabeth Humphrys | September 29, 2016

There is an emerging body of literature questioning the usefulness of the term ‘neoliberalism’. This work has highlighted the tendency for new analysis to simply add another yet more precise definition of neoliberalism in an effort — as Rajesh Venugopal says — ‘to refine, complicate and [...]

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Elizabeth Humphrys, ‘Australia under the Accord (1983-1996)’

Elizabeth Humphrys | April 22, 2016

Elizabeth Humphrys (University of Technology Sydney), 'Australia under the Accord (1983-1996): Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism'

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Why didn’t neoliberalism start during the Fraser Liberal Government?

Elizabeth Humphrys | November 11, 2015

Many people associate the beginning of neoliberalism with the election of conservative governments influenced by the New Right and theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. A useful question to ask, then, is why didn’t the vanguard neoliberal period commence during Australia’s [...]

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Travels with Gramsci

Elizabeth Humphrys | June 17, 2015

Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds to the joy once a project reaches an unexpected destination.

When Adam David Morton arrived to take up his Professorship at Sydney in 2014, it coincided with a merging and re-foundation of a number of local Capital [...]

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  • About
  • Manchester University Press Book Series
  • Past & Present Reading Group
  • A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • JAPE Submission Guidelines
    • JAPE Issues
    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Other Reading Groups
    • The Rubicon Reading Group
    • Marxism Reading Group
    • Journal Club
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
    • Unconventional Wisdom
  • Wheelwright Lecture
  • Events
  • Contributors
  • Links
    • Political Economy At Sydney
    • PHD in Political Economy
    • Master of Political Economy
    • Centre for Future Work
    • Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ)
    • Climate Justice Research Centre (UTS)