17th BIEN Congress, Portugal
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: IMPLEMENTING A BASIC INCOME
Dates: 25-27 September 2017
Locations:
25 September: Portuguese National Parliament
26 and 27 September: ISEG – Lisbon School of [...]
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Brexit demonstrated clearly what many had perceived to be impossible: European integration is reversible. The potential breakup of the European Union (EU) has been welcomed by people on the political right as well as some on the left. While the former hail the return of national sovereignty, [...]
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The following is the text of a presentation I gave on 9 March as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’.
If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’ [or directive: [...]
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We all know the story of utopia. It’s a tragic narrative in which hopes, dreams and projects oriented to a better world give way to ‘totalitarianism’. ‘Nice ideas on paper’ prove ‘disastrous in practice’. Utopia itself is disgraced, revealed as nothing more than dystopia disguised by false [...]
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The debate about our ecological predicament is heating up and, as it turns out, the Marxian critique of political economy is at the center of that debate.
Much of the discussion right now concerns the Anthropocene, the idea that the current geological age—overlapping with or, [...]
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It is not every day that political economists get into direct dialogue with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But it happened recently as a result of an article appearing in the Journal of Australian Political Economy. Written by UK political economists, Alex Nunn and Paul White, the [...]
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Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing the ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] role in combating the Taliban because of women’s ability to speak personally and credibly about their experiences under the Taliban, their aspirations for [...]
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At a postgraduate seminar at the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney (6 February 2017), we discussed the outlines of a “General Theory of Trump”. Students and staff submitted 10 Talking Points Towards a General Theory of Trump as a result and [...]
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