"We work at the most automated port on planet Earth. Our job description is literally "assisting automation"." On day #3 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you — who else? — the great Sam Wallman.

This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.

This book looks awesome

Very excited to celebrate 50 years of Political Economy at Sydney this Thursday! For many of us being students of PE has been life changing. We are indebted to the people who fought for an alternative to neoclassical economics and allowed us to study and teach the incredible program we have today

Milton Friedman on the BLF and Green Bans 🤡

Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5 🧵4/5

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned A thread👇

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

A nice article about friend and colleague Raewyn Connell in the SMH, including foreshadowing her new trans memoir. Pleased to see she's delivering this year's Ted Wheelwright lecture in political economy at Sydney University - one of the few universities to maintain political economy and Marxism.

Robodebt: administrative harm and Australian social policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tfw your joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat. Thanks @kurtiveson.bsky.social for your astonishing write up of our work! We're merely picking up on the threads of spatial and environmental political economy laid down by yourself and many others!

50 Years of Political Economy. Some fantastic articles, but only one has brought me to tears. @kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself. @ppesydney.bsky.social 1/ www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/...

spectrejournal.com/the-price-of... Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Read the review! Read the book!

🚨⛈️ BRISBANE AND SEQ: You do not have to do any activities or appointments for "mutual" obligations over the next week. If you are due to report your job search before 12 March, you do not have to submit any job applications or meet your points target. Stay safe ❤️

Incredible work by one of the best, most generous scholars I know. A more nuanced and politically useful analysis of geoengineering than you'll find anywhere else. Highly recommended!!

I return to this one a lot

As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes. Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!

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/...

Our research on community efforts to care for animals during the #BlackSummerBushfires is now out. Read the short article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/as-the-black... With gratitude to colleagues @seisydney.bsky.social and the Shoalhaven community who spoke with us.

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

Myself and @garethbryant.bsky.social have been editing the blog @ppesydney.bsky.social for 10 years now addressing the worldliness of critical political economy issues. So here's a thread celebrating its practical and theoretical diversity #HappyBirthdayPPE www.ppesydney.net

Public forum at Sydney Uni on Strategies for a Just and Democratic Climate Economy with @katemac.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social, Dan Sherrell (ACTU), Holly Creenaune (Sunrise Project) and @kurtiveson.bsky.social, presented by @seisydney.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/forum-strate...

Hello world - one of the many who are new here! Thought I'd start by sharing something I've been working on the past few months: The Break Down, @the-breakdown.bsky.social, a new(ish) space for all things capitalism + climate and ecological crisis www.break-down.org

Recently completed the ultimate post (PhD thesis) and am ready to get back to reality after 5 years. Hope I didn't miss much. Grateful for the world's most unproductive research assistant, who attempted to thwart me at every turn, pictured here basking in the submission celebrations

As promised (threatened?), I made a starter pack of heterodox and political economists! You'll see a range of pluralist theories here, as well as some heterodox-friendly economists that may be more mainstream. go.bsky.app/J86RtKh

My new article in the Journal of Industrial Relations, on climate change and WHS. I examine the findings of key ILO and Commonwealth reports and initiatives in 2023 and 2024 to assess what action experts argue is needed, and how Australia stacks up. It's open access. doi.org/10.1177/0022...