In the wake of the Government's announcement of its Cheaper Home Batteries Program, 60 Australian economists have signed a letter comparing the economic consequences of pursuing nuclear energy against those of subsidising distributed clean energy technologies, including batteries. The [...]
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What is the 34th book chosen for the Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney?
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The concept of productivity, including those for labour, capital and multi-factor productivity (MFP) are central to economic discussion about national economic performance, government policy and income distribution. There is common agreement that productivity growth has been, and remains, [...]
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I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, Summer 2024/2025). While it is great to open this sort of debate, it is crucial, first and foremost, to clarify what is being argued. My [...]
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The making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’
Tuesday 25 March, 1.00pm-2:30 pm, 2025
Room 341, Level 3, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney
Speaker: Dr Sahil Dutta
For a [...]
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What was ‘the Lukács Question’? Sometimes referred to as a ‘debate’ or an ‘affair’, the Lukács question was a reference in the 1950s to the resurfacing of attacks on Georg Lukács under the shadow of Stalinism, something that attracted the attention of Henri Lefebvre.
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What political economy approach can reveal the internal relations of exploitation and expropriation through a focus on related class struggles and broader alliances across the spheres of production and social reproduction?
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What can we say about the shape of things to come in world politics, the probability of different possibilities, and the reflexivity of our anticipations? Building on post-Keynesian economic theory and classical theories of imperialism, my new book discusses a new era of insecurity, [...]
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