The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”. In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably [...]
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As groups like the Finance and Society Network make clear, banking and finance are too important to be left to financial economists and industry lobbyists. We all need to take some interest in what the powerful do and how they do it. These days this also extends to the huge ecosystem of [...]
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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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Political Economy Seminar
Cryptocurrencies as units of account: possibilities for a postcapitalist, distributed mode of measurement
Presenter: Dick Bryan
Date: Oct 25 2022 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Location: Room 650, [...]
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In the right-wing backlash against environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, everyone is accusing everyone else of placing politics over financial returns. The ESG vs anti-ESG debate has led various commentators to argue that ESG investing should be split into purely risk-based and [...]
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In this short blog post, I want to make the case for why a critical study of ‘poverty finance’ is crucial to understanding neoliberalism and its limits, following the publication of my new book A Critical History of Poverty Finance.
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ESG investment funds, which claim to invest according to environmental, social and governance criteria, grew to almost US$3 trillion in 2021. With a 53% increase since 2020, this made ESG the fastest growing sector of the asset management industry. The rapid flow of funds into ESG [...]
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Martijn Konings in conversation with Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti
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