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Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment
In organising the Past & Present Reading Group, the first text that was chosen was a book that is certainly no shrinking violet. After all, Peter Thomas’ The Gramscian Moment was the winner in 2011...
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Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All
Financialisation, though nebulous, emerging and highly contested, is a concept that contemporary political economists can ill afford to ignore. Staff and research students in the University of Sydney’s...
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Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism
The transition from pre-capitalist to capitalist property relations…must be understood as an unintended consequence of the acts of … pre-capitalist classes, Robert Brenner, ‘The Social Bases of...
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Samuel Knafo, The Making of Modern Finance
Let me start this piece on Samuel Knafo’s The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard with a disclaimer: it makes no claims to neutrality or objectivity. I have witnessed the...
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Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism
Let us start from the end. State, Power, Socialism (1978) is closed with a section entitled “Towards a democratic socialism” (Part Five). Poulantzas therein condensed basic tenets of his positioning...
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Susanne Soederberg, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry
“Did you know that approximately 3 million Australians – around 16.9% of the adult population – are either fully or severely excluded from obtaining credit from the banks?” So asks the peak body...
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Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money
In the preface to the 1872 French edition of the first volume of Capital, Marx warned those readers who zealously seek the truth that ‘there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread...
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10 talking points from Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’
The Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Jason W. Moore’s major new book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital...
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Social justice and the city
David Harvey’s pioneering book Social Justice and the City (1973) takes its readers on a fascinating journey, from a mainstream liberal view of the city to a radical political economic alternative....
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