I would like to thank Andreas Bieler for his interesting and engaged review of my recent book Rethinking Global Labour, optimistically titled After Neoliberalism and Adam David Morton for hosting it on his excellent cutting-edge site. After explaining what the book is about Bieler makes two [...]
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A new special issue of the journal Globalizations has just been published and brings together articles on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held [...]
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The folks at the critical theory podcast Always Already focused on Martijn Konings’ most recent book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed in their January show. You can stream the discussion here or download the episode at the link [...]
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‘“The Viennese should emigrate to Australia!”’ [A bécsiek vándoroljanak ki Ausztráliába!], Bécsi Magyar Újság, 20 September 1922 (translated by Adam Fabry).
Authored by Karl Polanyi, this piece has been offered to Progress in Political Economy by Gareth Dale and Adam Fabry to deliver an [...]
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This presentation was delivered as part of an event launching my latest book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism at Gleebooks in Sydney (23 June 2015). It was followed by an appraisal by Dr Fiona Allon that is also published on Progress in Political Economy and available HERE.
It is now [...]
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It is now sometimes hard to remember, but there was a period after the start of the financial crisis when progressive commentary was pervaded by intense excitement about the end of neoliberalism and a return of the Keynesian state. Such thinking is often associated with Karl Polanyi’s [...]
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This is a modified version of the talk I gave at the Sydney and Naples launches of my book, The End of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism.
The genesis of this book was my dissatisfaction with dominant accounts of the global financial crisis and its implications [...]
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The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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