A Debate Between Jim Stanford and Michel Feher
The deleterious social consequence of the contemporary asset economy are well-documented. Households are shouldering levels of mortgage debt that appear increasingly unsustainable both to themselves and the wider economy. Alternatively, a [...]
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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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Afterword to Crisis and Sequels: capitalism and the new economic turmoil since 2007 by Martin Thomas (Brill, 2017)
Like every crisis, 2008’s surprised. Some of us failed to see how turmoil originating in finance, and apparently in a limited area of finance to do with the US [...]
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Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time
Concurrently in Perth – Melbourne – Sydney
Friday 1st December, 2017
Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, [...]
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As outlined in this series of blogs, Scandalous Economics is a collection of essays that explores “how scandals – and scandalous uses of and/or neglect of gender – have helped narrate the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) into political oblivion”, as Aida Hozić and Jacqui True outline in [...]
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Abortion is routinely portrayed as a dominant feature of the American ‘culture wars’; yet this categorisation misunderstands the fundamental place that reproductive choice has in women’s economic position in society, and the way that lack of access to reproductive healthcare compounds [...]
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Pervasive lies and scandals inflected by gender and race/ethnicity are the early-warning devices for financial crises and the symptoms of their wilful forgetting.
Over the last month the turmoil in financial markets underpinned by the slump in global – and especially China’s – growth [...]
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This is an edited version of a piece that appeared in the European Financial Review and relates to the work I have recently conducted with Stephen Bell concerning our jointly authored monograph Masters of the Universe, Slaves of the Market and an article published in the British Journal of [...]
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