Yanis Varoufakis, 'Political Economy: The Social Sciences' Red Pill'

To mark his appointment as an Honorary Professor within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, we are delighted to announce the hosting of Professor Yanis Varoufakis.

Date and Location:

Friday 20 May 2016,

Lecture Theatre 315, Eastern Avenue,

4:00pm – 5.30pm

Please register HERE

All welcome!

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Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography is out in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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Yanis Varoufakis, ‘Political Economy: The Social Sciences’ Red Pill’