The Political Economy Society at the University of Sydney are putting out a call for interest on their upcoming student led ‘UPSWELL’ journal. If you have experience or want to be involved, join us on Wednesday 4th Oct 6PM to hear our ideas, contribute yours, and create a vision [...]
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A new era of antagonism between the US and China has emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is seen in the mounting rhetoric of "strategic competition" escalating military expenditures and efforts at alliance building such as AUKUS. Increasingly important are the US's efforts to [...]
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In recent years, the climate movement has adopted a strategy of pressuring institutions to divest from their holdings of fossil fuel related shares. Divestment is certainly an enticing proposition for otherwise powerless activists – the idea that such a simple financial decision could [...]
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Australia is currently undergoing what is acknowledged to be the fastest energy transition in the world. In the face of this rapid and uncertain transformational change, the federal government is pushing for a ‘gas-led recovery’ and a Technology Investment Roadmap that explicitly excludes [...]
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Each year the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) offers a $2000 prize to encourage young scholars to convert their research work into a publishable article.
‘Young’ in this context is defined in terms of the experience of the applicant. Applicants may be of any age, [...]
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Peter Thiel is many things. A staunch libertarian, he is the billionaire Founder of PayPal and Palintir, an early investor in Facebook, and confidant to the likes of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The small group of colleagues he had at PayPal’s inception left to form companies like YouTube, [...]
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Zoonotic disease pandemics such as COVID-19 present us with an opportunity to reframe how we understand capitalism by visibilising the role animals are forced to play in its processes, and the forms and spaces of human-animal contact that are dominant in our world. The [...]
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This set of reflections concludes this series of “five minute honours theses” produced by members of the 2017 Political Economy Honours cohort. The motivation for running this series emerged from the desire to see our research and ideas reach a broader audience than a couple of markers and [...]
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