Poster for event celebrating 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney featuring a photo of a woman protesting outside Merewether Building on top of a map of Sydney. Poster credit: Cemal Burak Tansel
Celebrating 50 Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney ppesydney.net/celebrating-...
Raewyn Connell is delivering this year’s Wheelright Lecture the global assault against universities Including the intentional demolition of higher education in Gaza.
Tonight’s Wheelwright Lecture. Raewyn Connell with a masterclass in dissecting three structural tensions producing university crises, and how to begin addressing each of them. The talk ended with Tagore’s university - as a meeting place of worlds, built collectively, under the trees.
Wonderful profile of Raewyn Connell just published in the SMH www.smh.com.au/national/rae... - her Wheelwright Lecture, “Should we abolish universities?” is on tomorrow night! www.ppesydney.net/2025-wheelwr...
On Sunday, The Age commissioned an opinion piece from Palestinian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah - only to decline publishing it after it was submitted.
Thanks to Randa for letting us publish it here.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...
Just out in @aunz.theconversation.com: #AI #Abundance and money. My reflections on #BasicIncome #BasicServices and why we need more than technical solutions to the political challenges of #poverty and #inequality
theconversation.com/if-ai-takes-...
Yes! Will be recorded and posted on ppesydney.net
Announcing the 2025 Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy at the University of Sydney - Raewyn Connell: "Should we abolish universities?" www.ppesydney.net/2025-wheelwr...
The Macquarie PhD scholarship on our new Climate Economy project is now open - working with me, @garethbryant.bsky.social Sophie Weber, @clairerhiannon.bsky.social & Svenja Keele. We'll explore how climate change remakes our political economy. Topic negotiable.
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
We launched a new media platform a month ago, because... well, look at the state of Australian journalism.
The response has been incredible, thanks to everyone who has listened and signed-up.
Our launch sale ends in a couple of days. It's just $5 a month. Please subscribe: www.lamestream.com.au
3 year post-doc in Political Economy and Economic Geography at the University of Sydney - working on a project about Australia's Climate Economy with me, Sophie Webber, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social @clairerhiannon.bsky.social, and Svenja Keele www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...
Great overview from @elifuzgoren.bsky.social on her new book *Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe, Uneven Development and Hegemony* with @manchesterup.bsky.social - the latest in the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series!
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Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian.
Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.
Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1
Just emailed it to you
The anecdote at the beginning of this is so insane, I am losing my mind. This is some truly impeccable lore about David Harvey.
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“Indeed, one of the many depressing realities of the Trump administration is its failure to understand that, in a free society, arguably the most important role of government is to reduce uncertainty, not do whatever it can to raise it.”
In 40 years of finance journalism I have never come across a corporate restructuring project as ambitious, as complex and as fraught with risks as the one being undertaken by University of Technology Sydney. I don’t believe any publicly listed company with revenues of more than $1 billion has attempted to simultaneously change its product offering, slash its frontline staff, introduce a new operating model and roll out a new enterprise resource planning software system.
Interesting to read this corporate sense-check on UTS restructuring plans www.afr.com/work-and-car...
Significantly for the budget, mortgage guarantees sit mostly off the budget balance, whereas mortgage interest tax deductions reduce government revenue and will increase the deficit.
Still there are some interesting differences: Labor focusing on the deposit gap as the major hurdle for first home buyers (driven by already high asset prices vs wages), Coalition focusing on repayment affordability (more acute with higher interest rates)
Economists warned that Dutton’s mortgage deductibility policy and Labor’s 5 per cent home deposit policy would make Australia’s housing affordability problems worse. Former Reserve Bank of Australia governor Ian Macfarlane said both policies would push up demand for housing and cause prices to rise.
Inflationary impacts on house prices are precisely *why* these policies are favoured over other options www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Well, yes. I just like that they made up the numbers to get an exact negative 1. Again, I am a financial columnist, and I have a patriotic appreciation for the US’s export industry of finance, and two of that industry’s most popular products are: 1.Sprinkling some Greek letters on your work to add visual interest, and 2.Making up parameters to solve for the result you want. Even in this tariff announcement, you see the US leaning into its comparative advantage.
From cloth and wine to made up trade formulas, comparative advantage lives on! Via @matt-levine.bsky.social
Enjoy! Saw him with Wednesday last year at the Factory (which tbh feels like a weird RSL venue) - so good!
Bar chart showing levels of dissatisfaction with access to housing by young people in OECD countries
Story is about dissatisfaction of young Americans with politics, but it is young Australians who are the most dissatisfied with their access to housing on.ft.com/3FAbgAE
Picture of an ECOP1001 Lecture Theatre at the University of Sydney
Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001
My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
LA fires: private firefighters of first resort; state insurers of last resort www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tweet by Keith Wasserman: “Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.”
I keep thinking about this (of course). The post poses a question - not the one asked explicitly, but: at what point might climate change make those with power care enough to do something about it?
