Over @ppesydney.bsky.social we are celebrating Martijn Koning's new book *The Bailout State* with this interview on state theory, the Minsky “moment”, the Keynesian revolution, Modern Monetary Theory and so much more @politybooks.bsky.social @mkonings.bsky.social

My new opinion piece on our departments blog, the pitch: there is some very old-school economic thinking behind Japan's 'new' arms industry.

Frank Stilwell, @garethbryant.bsky.social and I co-edited a special issue of JAPE all about teaching political economy. If you teach political economy, IPE or heterodox economics I think this issue will make for great reading and could be a valuable resource for your own practice. Check it out!

Publication day! Here I try to figure out what the ALP is up to with climate and energy. I argue by relying on private capital to build out its "transition", the Albanese gvt will ultimately fail to decarbonise. Open access! No paywall! @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have written a chapter for this forthcoming paperback on Productivity edited by Roy Green and Phil Toner. Add to your Christmas lists all! www.routledge.com/Understandin...

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I genuinely wonder how much Ishin's (still heavily Osaka based) electorate would feel if it became an appendage of the LDP as Komeito was.

Markets betting on a return to Abenomics...but will Gov. Ueda be willing to reverse the crawl towards policy normalization? I'm not sure.

JOB! Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Finally switched to BlueSky! - my most recent publication for those interested. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...