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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If our contemporary managerial obsession with all things numerical and quantitative has its roots in military planning in the 1950s rather than in neoliberal economic policy in the 1980s, then surely we need to pay more attention to the idea of security in political economy.
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In 1992, the Chicago School economist Milton Friedman was asked about the original purpose of the neoliberal Mont Pèlerin Society, founded in 1947. There is “no doubt”, he replied, that its original purpose was “to promote a classical, liberal philosophy, that is, a free economy, a free [...]
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The forum editors propose to re-orient the agenda of IPE studies away from the critique of neoliberalism as ideology and a corporate practice to a comprehensive study of managerial governance as a complex field that was shaped by technology, science, politics and management practice and [...]
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Political developments of recent years have pushed the question of fascism to the forefront of many people’s minds. The word was used occasionally during the first decade of the twenty-first century, as a way of condemning the policies of the Bush administration. But that was typically in a [...]
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The emergence of managerial governance points to a more profound socio-institutional transformation than what it often implied in International Political Economy (IPE) and related fields. If discussed, the study of managerial ideas and behaviour has frequently been depicted as something [...]
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After the largest correction in 40 years, house prices are rising again in Sydney and Melbourne, two of the world’s most unaffordable cities. Along with private pension savings, real estate investments (including the family home) are central to a dignified life in retirement for workers in [...]
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A review of Sheldon Krimsky. GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods. Cambridge, MA and London, England: MIT Press. 2019.
No new technology has ever been as controversial or divisive as food biotechnology, says Sheldom Krinsmsy in GMOs Decoded. He offers a [...]
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