Class Structure in Australian History has been ignored for most of its life as an academic publication. Historians argued the text was not empirically rigorous; left-wing commentators that it lacked a sufficient account of race, class, gender, the mode of production, the world-system [...]
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The study of the political economy of Australian capitalism begins with Marx’s Capital, Volume I (1867) Chapter 33 ‘The Modern Theory of Colonisation’. In this final chapter, Marx discusses the exportation of capitalist social relations to the global periphery. This required, it is [...]
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To read Doreen Massey is to traverse the labyrinth-like history of the British New Left from their rupture in the radical sixties to the rolling crisis of the Great Recession. From her working-class origins in the Wythenshawe public-housing estate in Greater Manchester to her academic [...]
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Radical Pedagogy and the Political Economy Movement What is the role of Political Economy in contemporary Australia? How does it position itself in the wider discourse of economics and the social sciences? What can Political Economy, as a social and academic movement, teach us? The [...]
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Essay Writing in Political Economy – A free seminar for undergraduates hosted by the Political Economy Society
Come along for essay writing tips and advice from political economy PhD students. Topics will include: basic essay structure, finding your voice and developing an argument, [...]
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This is the first in a series of posts for the Unconventional Wisdom section of the Progress in Political Economy blog, written by Honours students within the Department of Political Economy. It stems from the cohort of Honours students that took the unit coordinated by Adam Morton entitled [...]
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