The term “late capitalism” seems to be everywhere as a trending meme – often used as a kind of shorthand to illustrate the absurdities of certain free market economies. On Twitter, you will find the hashtags #latecapitalism (English), #tardocapitalismo (Italian), #capitalismotardio (Spanish), [...]
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We are witnessing in growing horror daily scenes of panic-buying and empty supermarket shelves. Australians are hoarding basic goods, like toilet paper, pasta and rice, in preparation for a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak. Similar behaviour has occurred in other countries, like the United [...]
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Rick Kuhn, 'At the length the truth will out' (hopefully): The reception of Henryk Grossman's crisis theory
Henryk Grossman recovered Marx’s theory of economic crisis, based on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, in his best known work, The Law of Accumulation and [...]
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Simon Mohun, The Relevance of the Financial Crisis
With a return visit to the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Simon Mohun extends his work on the classical surplus-based tradition in economics. As he writes on his Research in Political Economy home page, [...]
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UNRAVELLING THE POLITICS OF DISARRAY
Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations
University of Nottingham, 15th June 2017
Clive Granger Building, University Park
The new challenges facing societies across the globe have dismantled [...]
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The certainties that used to hold neoliberalism together are melting into the air: the common sense of the age has degenerated into clichés. Tried and tested policies such as privatisation, marketisation and trade liberalisation have lost traction, and established political systems are [...]
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Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex), 'The Global Development Crisis'
This is the seventh seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
29 October 2015, Darlington Centre [...]
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Compromised in Crisis: A Greek tragedy or real politik?
When: Wednesday 19 August, 4:30-6:00pm
Where: New Law Annexe, Room 346, University of Sydney
A public forum organised by the Department of Political Economy on the current crisis in Greece, featuring Professor Aspromourgos [...]
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