The primary function of this thesis was to analyse the Australian experience of the Global Financial Crisis and the contrasting approaches taken by the New and Post-Keynesian economic schools of thought in explaining and understanding how Australia managed to circumvent a technical [...]
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From the years 2000-2005, Bolivia stood in a moment of potentially revolutionary transformation. Spurred by indigenous social movement activism protesting against the privatisation of water and natural gas, two successive governments were brought down, and a new political party with its base [...]
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Finance is changing our lives. Through mortgages and super we now have more debt, and more savings, then ever before. The expansion of financial markets – what sociologists call ‘financialisation’ – creates new winners and losers. It even changes how we think about social rights. The [...]
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In a curtain raiser speech for the recent IMF & World Bank Spring Meetings with finance ministers and central bankers, Managing Director Christine Lagarde noted better prospects for global growth, but also the need to build up counter-cyclical monetary and fiscal policy buffers ‘creating [...]
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In 2014, the Australian federal government repealed a national compliance emissions trading scheme (ETS). This was a world first decision to get rid of flagship climate legislation with no replacement at the time. The ETS ran for only two years (2012-14). It has since been replaced by the [...]
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Book Launch: Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
Global Capitalism. Global War. Global Crisis. How can these conditions be understood in terms of their internal relationship so as to capture capital’s connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social [...]
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My thesis, An ‘Old’ Institutional Perspective on Carbon Lock-In: The Case Of The Australian Electricity Sector, focused on the need for a transition to low- or zero-emissions energy systems as a key mitigation strategy in addressing anthropogenic climate change.
It focused primarily [...]
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In a recent article in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, I analyse the emergence of authoritarian populism in India under the Modi regime. The article is part of a special issue that I have co-edited on the rise of the right and democratic crises in Asia that includes contributions by Vedi [...]
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