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Can divestment save us?

Swapnik Sanagavarapu | November 1, 2022

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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Roadblocks in Australia’s Inevitable Energy Transition

Antonia Flowers | October 27, 2020

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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2020 JAPE Young Scholar Award: Applications Open

Frank Stilwell | October 15, 2020

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’s Zero to One explains why ‘big tech’ dominates

Seb Wrangles | August 25, 2020

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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Pandemic as symptom: COVID-19 and human-animal relations under capitalism

Bella Devine-Poulos | August 13, 2020

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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Reflections from Honours in Political Economy

Riki Scanlan | June 26, 2018

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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Quantitative Easing and Corporate Surplus Hoarding in Contemporary Japan

Luciano Carment | May 24, 2018

In 2012, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), launched one of the largest monetary policy experiments in the history of the 21st century. Whilst in the years since the GFC, many countries have engaged in the kind of bond buy-back programs now referred to as quantitative easing (QE), Japan’s is [...]

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The Perfect Storm: How Australia Managed to Weather the Global Financial Crisis

Sean Graham | May 15, 2018

The primary function of this thesis was to analyse the Australian experience of the Global Financial Crisis and the contrasting approaches taken by the New and Post-Keynesian economic schools of thought in explaining and understanding how Australia managed to circumvent a technical [...]

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  • Manchester University Press Book Series
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  • A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism
  • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • JAPE Issues
    • JAPE Submission Guidelines
    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
    • Unconventional Wisdom
    • Journal Club
    • Marxism Reading Group
  • Wheelwright Lecture
  • Events
  • Contributors
  • Links
    • Political Economy At Sydney
    • PHD in Political Economy
    • Master of Political Economy
    • Centre for Future Work
    • Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ)
    • Climate Justice Research Centre (UTS)
 

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