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Adam David Morton
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Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 1d
This blog post originally featured on my personal blog For the Desk Drawer, which now no longer exists. I thought it was transferred to @ppesydney.bsky.social but this was not so. Here it is for for the first time on PPE.
What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 1d
Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, a focus on a class-relational account of development banks in the mid-twentieth century can better assist understanding the hothousing for development
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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Reposted by Felicity Callard, Adam David Morton, Ian Bruff

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Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social · 3d
📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)
Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi
Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.
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Reposted by Andreas Bieler, Ian Bruff

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 6d
Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated
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Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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 wa...
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Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social · 6d
The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 8d
Now that’s what I call some Pashukanis — For the student members of the @ppesydney.bsky.social Past & Present Reading Group @rikiscanlan.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 9d
This is the cheap knockoff
Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into 'great spaces' found a new advocate in Trump? | Brendan Simms
Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitic...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 9d
There’s a crafted version and then a dollar shop version. This is the crafted version of Großraum and today’s geopolitics
The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 9d
Thank you Aida and hope you are well!

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 9d
From the archive, published in @jird-jour.bsky.social
Spaces of Capital and Rosa Luxemburg - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The article mentioned in this post ‘The Enduring Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital‘, is finally confirmed for publication in hard copy in the Journal of International Relations...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 22d
From October on the geopolitics of Venezuela by @armandovanrankinir.bsky.social

“Venezuela appears in the equation as a more feasible and less geopolitically risky target, and one more profitable in the political calculations of MAGA’s interlocutors”.
The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23d
Wow a New Year and more new @itspetergabriel.bsky.social - the track Been Undone is stunning. Thank you!
Been Undone - Dark-Side Mix
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 25d
To commence 2026 on @ppesydney.bsky.social we start the year with Kevin Gray reviewing @alfnilsen.bsky.social *Southern Interregnum* published with @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Review of Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Review by Kevin Gray of Alf Nilsen et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25d
Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism, online first (open access).
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 28d
My "novel" reading in 2025 - always loosely defined - with a nod here in the list to @criveragarza.bsky.social who's literary archive was acquired this year as part of the fabulous Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at University of Texas, Austin
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Novel Reading in 2025 - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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 “nov...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Dec 13
Latest book drop!

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Dec 12
The next text to start 2026 in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social has been announced @plutopress.bsky.social
Next Past & Present Reading Group Text - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
All the details on the next text selected by the Past & Present Reading Group, commencing in 2026.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Dec 2
Jamie Morgan on Money in the 21st Century
Money in the 21st Century - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
With an eye on Stablecoin, what struggles are currently underway to shape the future of money issuance, banking and finance?
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Dec 2
More on the “mainstreaming of Marxism” here with International Affairs
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Mainstreaming Marxism: on the anarchic structure of world economy
This article argues that issues of class and race have been excluded from considerations of the anarchic structure of world economy. By studying together s
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Dec 2
What another “mainstreaming” of Marxist critique!? Mark Carney proves he’s environmentally-friendly by recycling Giovanni Arrighi - on the variable geometry (of imperialism) 1/2
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George Lawson @georgelawson.bsky.social · Dec 1
Revolutions are Back! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Revolutions Are Back! The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion. By Mark R. Beissinger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xx+566. $110.00 (clot...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 29
All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself
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Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 27
Clearly not dancing the dialectic with Bertell Ollman - Dialectic investments in The Economist (15-21 November 2025)

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 17
My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland*
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Mapping the World of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 10
Brilliant overview by Brett Heino on his new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* launched @gleebooks.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com
Launching the Literary Geographies of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Launched on 31 October 2025 at Gleebooks, Sydney, this post focuses on the book by Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, which will be followed next week by a commentary fro...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 6
It is made of a slightly different cover - less creasing-ification!!

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 6
Whereas as *that* is how to do a trilogy and its associated texts.

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 5
This frustrates the hell out of me. Differences between first and second imprint. Then different book sizes within the second imprint (volume two is smaller in height) and then different font sizes on the spine for the completed trilogy (with volume three). Agggh! @dukepress.bsky.social

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 4
Now out! Although not got to Volume II yet and reckon I need to go back to reread the first in the trilogy to do it all justice @ianbruff.bsky.social
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III: A Novel
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 3
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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