A new report by the Evatt Foundation provides valuable information on the distribution of wealth in Australia. At a time when the major Australian political parties are clearly taking different positions on the importance of economic inequality, this is timely. The conservative Coalition [...]
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Last week, it was my pleasure to engage with an initiative that the Institute of Teaching and Learning at the University of Sydney organises in the form of their #edtech talks. These are seminars focusing on learning and teaching through technology. My talk was on ‘Blogging as Pedagogy’ that [...]
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By devoting the 2015 Socialist Register to investigating class formation and class strategies on a global scale, as we also did the 2014 volume marking the Register’s fiftieth anniversary, Greg Albo and me were going against fashion in quite deliberately emphasising the fundamental [...]
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Like the capital controversy of the 1960s, the current controversy over human capital pits neoclassical economics against its critics, which is my focus here re-blogged from my site Occasional Links & Commentary: On Economics, Culture and Society.
The capital controversy (also [...]
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Economic inequality, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, is currently in the spotlight. Neoliberalism was supposed to have banished this concern, turning our attention to how we all get rich by embracing free-market capitalism. But something went wrong, didn’t it? Now we find the Pope saying that [...]
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Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is a principal outlet for political economy articles in Australia. It has been running for over thirty years and has a strong reputation for providing alternatives to mainstream economics, presenting analyses of Australian and [...]
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With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book . The purpose is modest. There is already in existence some rather excellent coverage and detailed engagement with the book both in the general media and on [...]
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With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book . The purpose is modest. There is already in existence some rather excellent coverage and detailed engagement with the book both in the general media and on [...]
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