In 1993 the World Bank allowed people to seek recourse for harm resulting from the projects it finances in developing countries. Within a decade of the World Bank Inspection Panel, the other Multilateral Development Banks, including the World Bank Group, the Asian, African and Inter-American [...]
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The 90th issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy was published this week, at the end of a deeply troubling year – with Russia’s war on Ukraine, the emergence of strong inflationary tendencies, growing fears of economic recession, and mounting evidence of deepening climate change. [...]
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The confusion about the term ‘imperialism’ can be resolved upon recognising that the term was originally popularised to explain warfare, but not national exploitation, whereas the subsequent evolution of the term sought to explain national exploitation, but not warfare. Therefore, the term [...]
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For the Race, Place & Critical Theory Reading Group, convened by Dallas Rogers, my role was to act as a reader of the final main chapter and coda of Abdoumaliq Simone’s The Surrounds: Urban Life within and Beyond Capture. Here is my write up of that reading.
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One of the many things we can learn from the recent elections in the United States is that the socialist revival which began there a few years ago, spearheaded first by Bernie Sanders in the Senate and then by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the House, has by no means run out of steam. The [...]
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Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but a ‘socially created category derived from labor relations, a product of the exploitative economic structure of capitalist society’. [...]
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I published a book in 1997 – Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World. Now The Politics of Global Competitiveness is the sequel. The first one was a critique of what was known as political development theory, arguing that it was entirely ideological in character. While writing it, I had [...]
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The 15th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc), was delivered by Jessica Whyte on Wednesday [...]
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