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Book launch: Frank Stilwell, The Political Economy of Inequality

by Frank Stilwell on May 6, 2019

Book launch: Frank Stilwell, The Political Economy of Inequality

Frank Stilwell | May 6, 2019

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When: Wednesday 8 May 2018, 5.30-7.00pm

Where: Sydney Trades Hall Auditorium, 4-6 Goulburn St Sydney

Speakers: Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney

Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Oxfam Australia

John Graham, MLC, Vice President, Evatt Foundation

Chair: Christopher Sheil, Senior Fellow in History, UNSW and President, Evatt Foundation

Hosted by Unions NSW and the Evatt Foundation.

Refreshments provided and books available for purchase and signing.

About the book: During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age.

In this book, leading political economist Frank Stilwell provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, causes, and consequences of this growing divide. He shows how we can understand inequalities of wealth and incomes, globally and nationally, examines the scale of the problem and explains how it affects our wellbeing. He alsoshows that, although governments are often committed to ‘growth at all costs’ and‘trickle down’ economics, there are alternative public policies that could be used tonarrow the gap between rich and poor.

Stilwell’s engaging and clear guide to the issues will be indispensable reading for all students, general readers and scholars interested in inequality in political economy, economics, public policy and beyond.

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Author: Frank Stilwell

Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, co-ordinating editor of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE), and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

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  • Thomas Ulrich Schwab | Nov 16 1919

    I think it is preferable to abandon using names Economics nor Political Economy because they are not devoted to humanity. Instead the discipline would be better called Human Economic Relations. The ‘old’ terms are defunct and carry counter-productive baggage.
    Thomas Ulrich Schwab
    Blog: http://www.tomusch2001.com

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    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
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