Marx’s critique of capitalism, and more specifically his theory of value, are still very relevant today, as I argue in my new book Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century.
But his work is often misunderstood, not only by orthodox economists but also by [...]
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The Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Moishe Postone’s classic book Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996). The book provided very fertile ground for [...]
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The theories of monopoly capitalism and unequal exchange make important contributions to economic theory. They emphasize, respectively, how big companies can use their power over consumers and smaller-firm suppliers, and how rich countries can exploit poorer ones.
Capitalist [...]
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The place of animals in relation to left movements has been highly uncertain. On one hand, there has been at least some historical ambivalence from the organised left around animal welfare as essentially a bourgeois pursuit, something that was reflected in Marx’s brief comments on the issue [...]
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Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South
Book Launch
DATE: Thursday 27 October
TIME: 3:00pm to 6:00pm
LOCATION: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building, Manning Rd, University of Sydney, [...]
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The Department of Political Economy recently hosted a lecture by Professor Dick Bryan to celebrate his outstanding contributions to political economy.
The lecture, entitled Navigating in a Fog: Plotting a Marxist Political Economy, results from his retirement from the University of [...]
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The Department of Political Economy is delighted to announce a lecture by Professor Dick Bryan to celebrate his outstanding contributions to political economy.
The lecture is entitled Navigating in a Fog: Plotting a Marxist Political Economy and results from retirement from the [...]
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One of the first times I was provoked to think about the labour theory of value was in a university seminar, in which we discussed what lay behind the prices of things. Demand? Usefulness? Or was it completely random? The amount of labour embodied in a commodity certainly didn’t seem to [...]
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