Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.

In the last generation there has been heavy criticism of what universities have become, in an era of commercialism and managerial control. This lecture will discuss the main points of criticism, wheth...

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In my recently published book, Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe: Uneven Development and Hegemony, rather than highlight the form of integration, I address the socio-economic conte...

David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...

The IMF is trying to make sense of the unknowable

The most expensive wildfire in US history could put a $5 billion hole in the state-sponsored home insurer of last resort.

Donald Trump’s second term won’t bring smaller government as promised. Instead, it will replace regulations with a system of executive grace and favor. The old bailout standard of “too big to fail” wi...

Big inheritances are set to transform economies, markets and society

Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.

On December 3, 2024, CPE Senior Associate for Energy Finance Advait Arun presented at the University of Sydney's Climate Economy political economy and geography workshop about how the Inflation Reduct...

After staff rebelled against a punitive, algorithm-driven regimen introduced by the huge supermarket chain, they demanded — and got — safety over speed.

The US has never been so overhyped, relative to the rest of the world

Why my new book Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing addresses how conflicts over water are human-caused events that have socio-political and economic roots.

Introducing SSPS6008 – Universal Basic Income In 2025, the the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney will offer the first unit of study focused on Universal Basic...

The Australian Journal of Human Rights has awarded the annual Andrea Durbach Prize to Dr Ihab Shalbak.

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Sydney Environment Institute presents Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy The economy is an increasingly significant terrain of climate politics. The climate debate has moved on from ...

Climate change will impact work health and safety conditions at an unprecedented scale, and the effects are already being felt. The most significant consequence...

Bangladesh faces a continuing shortage of electricity, increasing the risk of blackouts, even after making a partial payment to a power plant in India that slashed supply because of unpaid bills.

We are economists, political-economists and policy specialists in related fields, writing to express our support for active measures to strengthen Australia's manufacturing capabilities and guide inve...

Marxists tend to like the labor theory of value because it provides a vivid account of exploitation and highlights a basic antagonism at the core of capitalism: capitalists and workers are locked in a...