Welcome to the home of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)

Since 1977, the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) has published political economic alternatives to orthodox economics and analyses of key features of contemporary capitalism. The journal continues to foster debates about the interactions between capital, labour, ecology and the state, particularly in the Australian context.

JAPE publishes two issues each year, which are either ‘theme’ issues on a particular topic or ‘general’ issues containing articles on a range of topics. The journal’s editors are committed to publishing high-quality and peer-reviewed articles and encouraging young scholars to develop their research publications.

JAPE aims to reach as wide an audience as possible. It therefore encourages clear and straightforward writing on important topics of public interest. Interested in contributing? Read the submission guidelines here.

All current and previous JAPE articles are freely accessible on this site, and will be updated as each new issue is published. You can view all issues of the journal on this page.

The Journal of Australian Political Economy is copyright. To get permission to reprint articles, you should contact the JAPE Editorial Coordinator.

Please check-back on this page regularly for future news and updates.

      

 

Thinking about applying for this year’s JAPE Young Scholar Award?

Frank Stilwell | November 24, 2025

The editors of the Journal of Australian Political Economy like to encourage and enable students to progress to publishing articles based on their work. Particularly for any student who has been writing a dissertation or thesis, getting an article published [...]

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50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Frank Stilwell | August 12, 2025

The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sydney, campaigning for a PE course that students could take as an alternative to mainstream [...]

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What is the relationship between economic growth and the environment? A degrowth critique of the ‘contingent’ position

Terry Leahy | January 14, 2025

This is a brief response to Tim Thornton’s recent article for JAPE (94, Summer 2024/2025), ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’. I am not intending to go into the arguments he uses in detail but instead to explain the green growth and degrowth positions as I [...]

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Announcing a new JAPE

Frank Stilwell | December 17, 2024

Seen for a political economic perspective, there’s always lots of topics needing analysis. This is evident in the array of articles in the new issue of Australia’s leading political economy journal. Topics include debates around green growth; the wages of childcare workers; the [...]

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Thinking about applying for this year’s JAPE Young Scholar Award?

Frank Stilwell | October 24, 2024

The editors of the Journal of Australian Political Economy like to encourage and enable students to progress to publishing articles based on their work. Particularly for any student who has been writing a dissertation or thesis, getting an article published [...]

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A New Edition of JAPE: Relevance and Regeneration

Frank Stilwell | July 1, 2024

Political economy is most influential when it links academic analysis with practical participation in processes of social change. Concurrently, the enthusiasm and growing expertise of a younger generation of political economists is crucial. Both features are evident in the latest issue of the [...]

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Labor in Government: A new special issue of JAPE

Frank Stilwell | December 18, 2023

The midpoint of the current federal Labor government’s term of office is a good time to take stock and assess its performance. What has it done in each of the major policy areas? What has not yet been done but needs to be done? What are the possibilities and prospects? More generally, what does [...]

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JAPE: new and forthcoming issues

Frank Stilwell | June 27, 2023

The Journal of Australian Political Economy continues to be the go-to place for publishing political economy for local (and international) readers. The journal’s latest issue (Winter 2023) contains full-length articles on a variety of topics, with particular focus on Australian industry [...]

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