They’re divided, by generation and class, over whether it will be a good thing.
In late January, the Obama administration announced that it would remove a number of impediments to trade with Cuba by lifting restrictions on the American financing of exports, relaxing [...]
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Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet?
This was the question that animated my ‘Sydney Insights’ (or Professorial Inaugural Lecture) that was delivered on [...]
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Update: Call for papers deadline extended to Friday 16 September
The fifth annual Historical Materialism Sydney conference on new Marxist research will be held at The University of Sydney Business School Abercrombie Building on the 25th and 26th of November, 2016
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Penalty rates for working on weekends were an important “sleeper” issue in the recent federal election in Australia. On the surface, both Labor and the Coalition agreed the future of penalty rates would be determined by the Fair Work Commission. But that superficial consensus couldn’t hide [...]
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I was very fortunate to be invited to join Women’s Economic League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Sarajevo in June 2016 for a workshop to discuss a political economy perspective on WILPF’s proposed reparations program for survivors of the Bosnian war. And I also joined the solidarity [...]
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The 16th Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress was held at Sogang University, Seoul, from July 7-9 as part of Korean Basic Income Week.
The Congress brought together hundreds of basic income (BI) scholars and activists from around the world at a time when BI is attracting [...]
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Back in 2013 (and in a series of other posts), I have argued that neoliberalism (including so-called “left neoliberalism,” as espoused by Hillary Clinton and her new runnning-mate Tim Kaine) is not a unified period or stage of capitalism but, rather, a project to remake the world. Therefore, [...]
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The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney was very pleased to host a well-attended and thought-provoking seminar with Simon Springer, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, on 14 July 2016.
Today we are posting a video [...]
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