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David Aviles

@davidaviles.bsky.social
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PhD in Political Economy from USyd. Economic Geography Postdoc at SMI-UQ. Lecturer at UTFSM, Valparaíso. Researching Critical Minerals, Energy Transition, Commodity Frontiers, State Theory, 🇨🇱+🇦🇺

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Blogging on our article "Totality must be defended* with @chrishesketh.bsky.social published in Progress in Human Geography, we make available Aníbal Quijano's text Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina @ingridhk.bsky.social 1/
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A short introduction to our new article ‘Totality must be defended’ written with @morton.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/from-localit... Engaging with recent work by @mattthompson.bsky.social and @davidharvey.org among others
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now published in Progress in Human Geography, open access, *Totality must be defended*, co-authored with @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- brilliant to work on this together. We will blog on it next week on @ppesydney.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @proghumgeog.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
All the commentaries on the 35 books read, so far, in the Past & Present Reading Group are available here. We are excited to be reading, next, Karl Marx, *Theories of Surplus Value*. Commencing Part I of the "fourth volume" of Capital in a few months!!
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Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...
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Mònica Clua Losada @monicaclua.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Acaben d'arribar les galerades 🎉 Aneu reservant la lectura d'aquest estiu 🏖️ "Estado, clases y poder. Aproximaciones a las teorías críticas del Estado" coordinat per la @claracamps.bsky.social i una servidora. Amb capítols de @julegoi.bsky.social @ianbruff.bsky.social i altres.
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David Aviles @davidaviles.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
¿Alguien dijo economía mixta? Y bueno, acá una contribución al debate, conceptualizando el “invernadero para el desarrollo” (hothousing for development)
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
And the version in English
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Un “pincelazo” de Maurice Dobb para entender la economía mixta y el capitalismo de Estado con @davidaviles.bsky.social en @economyandspace.bsky.social sobre Mexico y Chile @iliasalami.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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Invernadero para el Desarrollo: Reordenando la Economía Mixta y el Capitalismo de Estado - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
¿Qué tienen de malo los enfoques de "economía mixta" y "capitalismo de Estado" para comprender la era del desarrollo estabilizador en América Latina?
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 10/02/2026
Reading Marx and drinking Guinness
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, a focus on a class-relational account of development banks in the mid-twentieth century can better assist understanding the hothousing for development @davidaviles.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @abieler.bsky.social
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
On Tuesday 13 January in Santiago de Chile
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
What another “mainstreaming” of Marxist critique!? Mark Carney proves he’s environmentally-friendly by recycling Giovanni Arrighi - on the variable geometry (of imperialism) 1/2 @versobooks.bsky.social
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Stefano Ponte @stefanoponte.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Do you know #artists who are working on a creative project and could benefit from a free stay on the beautiful hills close to Verona and Lake Garda, Italy? Our brand new Artist in residence program Casa Dell’Angelo could be for them! Info and applications here: www.casadellangelo.org
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Now out: Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City Environment and Planning F Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social and many more!
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Cold War II” (Fred Halliday) or a “structural Cold War” (Robert W. Cox) or a “Cold War of the mind” (Ken Booth) or the Cold War “annexation of the social sciences” (Pınar Bilgin and yours truly) that has never disappeared? Come and find out at the next AIPEN 2026 with @shaharhameiri.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: 2026 AIPEN Workshop: The International Political Economy in the Second Cold War - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
After decades of deepening economic integration, the world economy is increasingly challenged by rising geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry, notably, but not only, between the United States and China...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy” with @davidaviles.bsky.social is now out in Volume 57 Issue 5, of @economyandspace.bsky.social and Open Access 👇🏽
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Edited by Frank Stilwell, the latest issue of Journal of Australian Political Economy celebrates 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney as a discipline. More events later in the year!
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50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sy...
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 5 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from financialization and land values to decommodification strategies and mass displacement. Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Capitalism is coming to the UK! It wasn't easy to pull this off--but here is my take on capitalism's global history. In a bookstore near you this fall. www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
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Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New article by me on professional women as a ‘commodity frontier’ in the history of capitalism: The massive influx of women to white collar professions in the 1990s was the culmination of around a century of women’s efforts. But then… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Frontiers of human capital? women and the professions in the Angloworld
This article explores the place of professional women in the history of capitalism. I do this using three intersecting lenses, the third, commodity frontiers, being the most important. Low-cost com...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Short summary available here
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy in Mexico and Chile" by David Avilés and Adam David Morton: #importsubstitutionindustrialisation #LatinAmerica #mixedeconomy #primitiveaccumulation #statecapitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Returning to the University of Sydney in August is @iliasalami.bsky.social speaking on 'Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance' - details below!! 👇 @ppesydney.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
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Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
International Political Economy (IPE) as a discipline increasingly acknowledges the significance of racial oppression and inequalities. Yet these are often seen as separate from, or coinciding with, f...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Very excited to give this talk in Sydney in early August, presenting new research (conducted with @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social) on race and finance.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
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Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia
The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as B...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on "The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia" with @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber. A wonderful opportunity👇 www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, our latest article in EPA builds on the emerging analysis of state capitalism to advance a class-relational account of development banks in Mexico and Chile during the mid-twentieth century hothousing for development
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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David Aviles @davidaviles.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The Global Conference on Economic Geography 2025 is starting at Mechanics Hall in Worcester. I am looking forward to the next 4 days of discussion! #GCEG2025 @clarkuniversity.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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David Aviles @davidaviles.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A legend! Emeritus Prof Frank Stilwell teaching Political Economy at USyd
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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001
Picture of an ECOP1001 Lecture Theatre at the University of Sydney
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
All our previous 32 texts completed in the reading group www.ppesydney.net/past-present...
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Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David @morton.bsky.social, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. brill.com/view/journal...
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Lydia Cornell Official @lydiacornell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Beyond Intersectional Political Economy, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2024/12/beyo... @morton.bsky.social
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 01/01/2025
In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together. I've made some free courses to help: • Reading Capital v1 • Reading Capital v2 • Reading the Grundrisse • Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason • The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...
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Reading Capital
Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
And yours truly on Fernando Henrique Cardoso And Enzo Faletto, *Dependency And Development In Latin America* www.ppesydney.net/fernando-enr...
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
One of the purposes of the Past & Present Reading Group is to collectively read both classic and contemporary contributions to heterodox political economy and political theory broadly construed. Havin...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
And also @davidaviles.bsky.social on Amy C. Offner, *Sorting Out The Mixed Economy: The Rise And Fall Of Welfare And Developmental States In The Americas* www.ppesydney.net/amy-c-offner...
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Amy C. Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Almost nine years after reading Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's Dependencia y Desarrollo en America Latina, the Past & Present Reading Group has come back to visit the history of Latin Am...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Plus @davidaviles.bsky.social on Milton Santos, *The Nature Of Space* www.ppesydney.net/milton-santo...
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Milton Santos, The Nature of Space - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The Past & Present Reading Group has reengaged its spatial turn since completing Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space; Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour; and Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Ci...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Over on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) there’s this review of Felipe Antunes De Oliveira, *Dependency And Crisis In Brazil And Argentina* by Flávia Soares Julius www.ppesydney.net/felipe-antun...
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Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How are the works of Ruy Marini, Vania Bambirra and Theotônio dos Santos brought together by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira in Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina to offer a non-Eurocentric theo...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
With the the power bloc at the base of US Empire shifting ever rightward, it’s important to assess Ukraine as the centre of inter-imperialist rivalry and how its geopolitics may play out. Here’s Andreas Bieler and me in the latest issue of Socialist Register socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
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Vol. 60: Socialist Register 2024: A New Global Geometry? | Socialist Register
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