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-...

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! @abieler.bsky.social

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

The anecdote at the beginning of this is so insane, I am losing my mind. This is some truly impeccable lore about David Harvey. newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...

The Rerisking State on.ft.com/4lHJ1R2

Interesting to read this corporate sense-check on UTS restructuring plans www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Inflationary impacts on house prices are precisely *why* these policies are favoured over other options www.afr.com/politics/fed...

From cloth and wine to made up trade formulas, comparative advantage lives on! Via @matt-levine.bsky.social

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

Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001

Sorting your schedule for #AAG2025? Why not come by this more than “author meets critics” panel discussion for @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber's excellent new book 'Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures'? Monday 3.24 at 12:50PM. All are welcome!

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...

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?

Wrote about DOGE, technofascist fantasies, and the upcoming personalization of the bailout state for Jacobin Magazine. jacobin.com/2025/01/trum...

Inter-generational inequality or class inequality? “In the next 25 years, over $100tn in assets — ranging from property, aged wines and artwork — will be transferred from the boomers and older generations to their heirs in the US alone” on.ft.com/3VVkwVe

If you were to write a piece on carbon removal at the end of 2024, would it be about billionaires investing in a "gold rush"? Or about flight from a sector that has no clear and durable business model, in the face of decreasing climatetech funding and net-zero talk? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...

Last week, at the University of Sydney's Climate Economy workshop, I presented my observations on how the IRA has (somewhat) helped build *state capacity* across American govt institutions, and what that says about how economic development here works: publicenterprise.org/state-capaci...

Excellent work by Stephen Long thepolitics.com.au/a-giant-is-f...

It's just amazing to me that after almost two decades of highly visible bailouts and backstops, intelligent commentators can still see a bubble that will burst, rather than claims that must and will be protected. www.ft.com/content/49cc...

Commodity or commons? The heart of the topic of Caitlin Schroering’s new book *Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing* in the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social and Angela Wigger

Announcing our new unit of study on Universal Basic Income - to be offered for the first time at the University of Sydney in 2025! www.ppesydney.net/study-univer...

Hardcore dad life

Congratulations to Ihab Shalbak for winning this year's Andrea Durbach prize www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/news/andrea-...

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...

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

10 Great Book Econ Book Pairings 1) How China Escaped Shock Therapy- @isabellamweber.bsky.social ; & How China Escaped the Poverty Trap- Yuen Yuen Ang Two terrific works with a common theme: that optimal policy solutions are highly dependent on context and the stage of economic development.

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...

The Godda power station is fueled by coal from the Carmichael mine in Central Queensland - coal which Adani said was essential for lifting people out of poverty www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ownership of solar and wind generation not profitable enough for Origin. Is this how we should be making decisions about our response to the climate crisis? www.afr.com/companies/en...

Great coverage of our open letter supporting an active role for government in directing climate investment www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... The full letter in support of an expanded Future Made in Australia agenda here: www.ppesydney.net/open-letter-...

New book coming very soon! A critical and introductory field guide to the political economy of climate finance, from Sophie Webber and me www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Very excited to post this. The first installment of a three-part interview with Duncan Foley by John Clegg and David Calnitsky on the labor theory of value. Part I: The commodity law of exchange www.ppesydney.net/reconstructi...

Next Sydney Political Economy seminar (online): @abenanav.bsky.social on the “community” ideal in progressive economic thinking, with a response by @mikejbeggs.bsky.social. All welcome! www.ppesydney.net/seminar-aaro...

With Daniela Gabor I've been working on the concept of green macrofinancial regimes, and we're excited to share our draft paper. The paper covers a lot of ground, trying to bring together cpesky, ipesky, polisky, greensky & climatesky. osf.io/preprints/so...

Looks like we are at the point in the profit-led inflation debate where we are arguing over whether it is a good thing or a bad thing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The London Review of Books has taken on the question of probability density functions (& damage functions) in climate-economics models and wow it is so good @madisoncondon.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Progress in Political Economy (PPE) is now here! @ppesydney.bsky.social

Political Economy seminar with Claire Parfitt on ‘The Uncertain Foundations of Sustainable Investing and the Politics of Risk' - all welcome! www.ppesydney.net/seminar-clai...