2018 11th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy
Alfredo Saad-Filho (Professor of Political Economy, SOAS, University of London)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney
30 August, 2018: 6:00 – 7:30pm (drinks and bookstall in the Foyer [...]
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It might be too early, to speak of the year 2018 as the year of global education struggles. However, in this blog post co-written with Joeferson Almeida* we highlight that while (wildcat) strikes in the US have spread from one state to another, the staff in the education sector meanwhile in [...]
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Platform work has been widely heralded as a liberating, progressive development that provides workers with the opportunity to become micro-entrepreneurs and enjoy the freedom and autonomy of ‘being their own boss’.
In a nutshell, my honours thesis, Future of work: Formal rights, [...]
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Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba in 2016 marked the first US Presidential visit to the island nation since 1928. The trip was a product of the ‘Thaw’ in US-Cuba relations, announced by Obama himself in December 2014. Indeed, the announcement marked the first time that the two states have shared [...]
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There are numerous, competing theories that inform the study of development economics. We will examine three major theories. The approach will be eclectic in the sense that each theory will be examined in terms of its insights into the development process as well as its major [...]
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Near-consensus about our critically ill climate and the culpability of fossil-fuels is no longer enough to compel rapid energy transition – last year, Australia’s carbon emissions rose once again. Clearly, something is amiss in how we socially organise. Relying on technological breakthrough [...]
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News broke last week that Progress in Political Economy (PPE) received its second prize in consecutive years in the form of the 2018 Special Achievement in International Studies Online Media, which was awarded to Adam Morton and Gareth Bryant as joint editors of the blog by the Online Media [...]
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‘Poverty’ is one of those issues that receives extended and diverse attention globally. After all, the reduction and eradication of extreme poverty have been at the top of the global ‘development agenda’ since the 1990s. The United Nations enshrined the global community’s commitment to [...]
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