The Bailout State
Martijn Konings | June 30, 2026
How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?
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Seminar: Randall Germain, ‘The Problem of History in IPE: An Intellectual History’
Martijn Konings | April 9, 2024
Political Economy seminar
The Problem of History in IPE: An Intellectual History
Speaker: Randall Germain, Carleton University
When: 3-4pm, Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
Where: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 341, The [...]
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Forum: The Eternal Return of the Rentier? How Our Past Weighs on Our Future
Martijn Konings | March 22, 2024
In April, the School of Social and Political Sciences, in collaboration with the Justice and Inequality research priority of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will be hosting Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has [...]
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Mike Savage Public Lecture: ‘The Racial Wealth Divide’
Martijn Konings | March 22, 2024
In April, the School of Social and Political Sciences, in collaboration with the Justice and Inequality research priority of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will be hosting Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has a longstanding [...]
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Discussion: Martijn Konings and Jamie Martin on ‘The Meddlers’
Martijn Konings | Jamie Martin | August 8, 2023
In June 2023 Political Economy at the University of Sydney hosted a discussion on Jamie Martin's new book, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press). Jamie gave a presentation on the book, and Martijn Konings was the discussant. [...]
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Game of Claims: On Speculative Finance and the Social Logic of Leverage
Martijn Konings | December 28, 2021
Martijn Konings in conversation with Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti
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Two Lecturer Positions in Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Martijn Konings | November 15, 2021
Two full time continuing opportunities at our Camperdown Campus Opportunity to join a leading social sciences school Academic Level B, Base Salary $110,856 - $131,639 + 17% superannuation
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Recording of 2020 Wheelwright Lecture with Adam Tooze, Susan Ferguson and Jayati Ghosh
Martijn Konings | November 17, 2020
This Global Crisis: Capitalism In And Beyond The Pandemic
The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc) hosted the 13th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright [...]
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