Robert W. Cox was born in Montreal Canada in 1926. Following a Master’s degree in history from McGill University, he worked in the International Labor Organisation (ILO) for over 20 years. Cox then ...

Like Capital one hundred years before it, Mario Tronti’s Operai e capitale has served as a bible for generations of militants. From Silvia Federici and Toni Negri’s iterations on the theme of ...

In the wake of the Government's announcement of its Cheaper Home Batteries Program, 60 Australian economists have signed a letter comparing the economic consequences of pursuing nuclear energy against ...

Seen for a political economic perspective, there’s always lots of topics needing analysis. This is evident in the array of articles in the new issue of Australia’s leading political economy ...

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 ...

E.H. Carr’s The Twenty Years’ Crisis (1939), has a well-deserved reputation as a classic text that helped launch the academic discipline of International Relations (IR).Not only did Carr identify and ...

It is a basic shibboleth of Marxist thought that the law is structurally biased in the interests of capital over labour. Whether this is expressed through the language of base and superstructure, form ...

David I. Backer is an Associate Professor of education policy. After completing a rereading of Althusser’s educational theory, he's gone on to apply that framework to school finance. He writes a ...

15th Annual Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Workshop Adelaide University / Flinders University, February 6-7 2025 The world economy is increasingly challenged by wicked ...

Earlier this year in Davos, the new Argentinian President, Javier Milei, defended what he called “libertarianism”, a model characterised, according to him, by “private property, markets free from ...

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 ...

Last year I published an edited volume called Clickbait Capitalism.The title came as a surprise, even to me. The book was meant to be called Libidinal Economies of Contemporary Capitalism.No one was ...