Kean Birch (York University, Canada)
Title: Contract, Contract Law, and their Implications for Neoliberalism as a Concept
Abstract: Contractual relations underpin markets, although different analytical perspectives define contracts in very different ways: e.g. economists define [...]
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In a recent conversation on ‘the power of ideas’ that took place at the LSE, David Harvey pointed out to Michael Storper that urban economics is a most despised field in mainstream economics. The ‘best economists’, Harvey claimed, don’t do urban economics. The crowd, mostly pro-Harvey, [...]
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Marking the release of Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers by Costas Lapavitsas, I was delighted to be the discussant in the ‘Thinking about Money’ Symposium launching it at SOAS, University of London (18 January).
The Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Senate House) was full and lively [...]
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The publication of every issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is an occasion for celebration, but No. 78 of JAPE, focusing on ‘global economic inequalities and development’ warrants even more celebration. This is the first time in over three decades that JAPE has taken [...]
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Far from acting in the name of freedom, neoliberalism has always been about the coercive, non-democratic and unequal reorganization of societies — even more so after 2008.
Since the inauguration of the so-called War on Terror in 2001, but especially since the outbreak of global [...]
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Political emancipation is, of course, a big step forward. True, it is not the final form of emancipation in general, but it is the final form of human emancipation within the hitherto existing world order. It goes without saying that we are speaking here of real, practical [...]
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China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet, there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay [...]
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Are social movements in contemporary India a driving force for democratic deepening? This is the question at the heart of a new edited volume that Kenneth Bo Nielsen and I have recently published in Palgrave’s excellent book series Rethinking International Development.
Our book [...]
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