In 1959, C. Wright Mills coined the term ‘sociological imagination’ to illustrate how sociologists can provide unique insight via a broad analysis of the social. Via this critical process, we can remove ourselves from everyday life, seeing the social in the personal. The 2015 TASA (The [...]
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Basic Income (BI) has been in the news lately. The Swiss are set to vote on a proposal that would pay all citizens US$2,800 a month, trials of the policy in several Dutch cities have commenced, and a major nationwide study has been announced in Finland. We’ve also seen the launch of a new [...]
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Photograph courtesy of Lou Horton
During the Cold War Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was one of Australia’s best known communists. During 1954-55 he was a high profile hostile witness subpoenaed by the partisan Royal Commission on [...]
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Since its launch, over the past 16 months Progress in Political Economy (PPE) has been a collective effort involving nearly 60 authors writing over 200 posts across the range of political economy.
Our current Top Ten posts have a range of figures such as Yanis Varoufakis and Philip [...]
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It is sometimes said that ‘we are what we eat’. In a similar vein, perhaps we think what we read.
Academics spend a lot of time researching and writing, hoping to be published and read. Much of their writing is for academic journals. Do journals matter? At a minimum (I [...]
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This is just a note to relay the monograph outputs from members of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, across 2014 and 2015.
Congratulations to all the authors listed below for this outstanding level of achievement in such a short period of [...]
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We now have the digital audio recording, the video of Yanis Varoufakis’ talk, and a carousel of photographs linked to the speaker’s presentation on ‘Creditors Uninterested in Getting their Money Back: Dissolving the Eurozone’s Paradox’ delivered at the [...]
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Creditors Uninterested in Getting their Money Back: Dissolving the Eurozone's Paradox
Yanis Varoufakis Lecture at the University of Sydney.
The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is delighted to announce that it is hosting this [...]
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