Book launch for Wrong Way: How Privatisation & Economic Reform Backfired, edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner
Since the 1980s, successive waves of ‘economic reform’ have radically changed the Australian economy. We have seen privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and [...]
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“Neoliberalism is a slippery concept, meaning different things to different people” (p. 1). Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy’s excellently-edited volume The Handbook of Neoliberalism starts its mission with this nailing definition. Neoliberalism has become one of the concepts [...]
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In a famous passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, the following exchange takes place between Alice and Humpty Dumpty:
`I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice [...]
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Drawing on my article ‘The Labour governments 1974–1979: social democracy abandoned?’, recently published in the journal British Politics, this post questions the view that the Labour government in office from 1974 to 1979 started the transition to [...]
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Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and New Social Conservatism (Zone Books, 2017) tracks the politics of kinship in the era of neoliberalism, placing the centrality of “family values” discourse within the broader context of American social thought and post-Fordist [...]
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In some of the most powerful and engaging passages in Capital in 1867 Karl Marx wrote about the systematic fraud at the heart of market relations. Fraud, adulteration of food (a topic close to Marx’s heart) and corruption, were elements of capitalist development from the earliest days. As [...]
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In this talk I’d like to introduce my new book Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason. I will focus on one of the key themes of the book: the question of speculation.
If there is one thing that unites the different political economy critiques of the neoliberal [...]
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Martijn Konings, Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Within Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason, Martijn Konings argues that critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage [...]
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