From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and violence?
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What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom?
Adam David Morton | January 25, 2026
More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?
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Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated
Oliver Dodd | January 20, 2026
Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation was produced?
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Review of Southern Interregnum
Kevin Gray | January 1, 2026
Review by Kevin Gray of Alf Nilsen et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
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Novel Reading in 2025
Adam David Morton | December 29, 2025
So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading? My use of the term “novel” reading is loosely adopted, as you will see from the list below.
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New issue of JAPE addresses key policy issues
Frank Stilwell | December 22, 2025
The Journal of Australian Political Economy regularly publishes articles on contentious issues of public concern. Because real-world challenges are continuously evolving, timely analyses of the underlying political economic forces are recurrently needed. This latest issue of JAPE focuses on [...]
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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text
Adam David Morton | December 13, 2025
All the details on the next text selected by the Past & Present Reading Group, commencing in 2026.
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Making Gaza Safe for Capitalism: De-risking Palestine for Business
Elliot Dolan-Evans | December 11, 2025
Within 48 hours of the United Nations Security Council approving US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza on 17th November, Israel launched several airstrikes across Gaza that killed 28 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 70 others. In the same time period, [...]