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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · 7d

Celebrating 50 Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney ppesydney.net/celebrating-...

Poster for event celebrating 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney featuring a photo of a woman protesting outside Merewether Building on top of a map of Sydney. Poster credit: Cemal Burak Tansel

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 28d

Raewyn Connell is delivering this year’s Wheelright Lecture the global assault against universities Including the intentional demolition of higher education in Gaza.

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal

Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

www.smh.com.au

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.

Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

www.deepcutnews.com

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Ben Spies-Butcher @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social · Aug 17

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-...

If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?

AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.

theconversation.com

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yes! Will be recorded and posted on ppesydney.net

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Aug 12

Announcing the 2025 Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy at the University of Sydney - Raewyn Connell: "Should we abolish universities?" www.ppesydney.net/2025-wheelwr...

2025 Wheelwright Lecture | Raewyn Connell | Should we abolish universities? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In the last generation there has been heavy criticism of what universities have become, in an era of commercialism and managerial control. This lecture will discuss the main points of criticism, wheth...

www.ppesydney.net

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Ben Spies-Butcher @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social · May 29

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...

The climate economy: Emerging strategies for Australia

Join a PhD project on Australia's climate economy, exploring how transport, policy, and finance adapt to climate change.

www.mq.edu.au

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · May 23

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

Lamestream

A podcast and newsletter covering the crisis in media.

www.lamestream.com.au

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · May 23

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...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · May 19

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!
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The Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe: Uneven Development and Hegemony - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In my recently published book, Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe: Uneven Development and Hegemony, rather than highlight the form of integration, I address the socio-economic conte...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 24

Just emailed it to you

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · Apr 24

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...

David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025

David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...

newleftreview.org

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 24

“Indeed, one of the many depressing realities of the Trump administration is its failure to understand that, in a free society, arguably the most important role of government is to reduce uncertainty, not do whatever it can to raise it.”

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Rerisking State on.ft.com/4lHJ1R2

Trump’s trade shock hits the global economy

The IMF is trying to make sense of the unknowable

on.ft.com

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

In 40 years of finance journalism I have never come across a corporate restructuring project as ambitious, as complex and as fraught with risks as the one being undertaken by University of Technology Sydney.

I don’t believe any publicly listed company with revenues of more than $1 billion has attempted to simultaneously change its product offering, slash its frontline staff, introduce a new operating model and roll out a new enterprise resource planning software system.

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 14

Significantly for the budget, mortgage guarantees sit mostly off the budget balance, whereas mortgage interest tax deductions reduce government revenue and will increase the deficit.

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 14

Still there are some interesting differences: Labor focusing on the deposit gap as the major hurdle for first home buyers (driven by already high asset prices vs wages), Coalition focusing on repayment affordability (more acute with higher interest rates)

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

Economists warned that Dutton’s mortgage deductibility policy and Labor’s 5 per cent home deposit policy would make Australia’s housing affordability problems worse. Former Reserve Bank of Australia governor Ian Macfarlane said both policies would push up demand for housing and cause prices to rise.

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

Well, yes. I just like that they made up the numbers to get an exact negative 1. Again, I am a financial columnist, and I have a patriotic appreciation for the US’s export industry of finance, and two of that industry’s most popular products are:

1.Sprinkling some Greek letters on your work to add visual interest, and
2.Making up parameters to solve for the result you want.

Even in this tariff announcement, you see the US leaning into its comparative advantage.

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Mar 25

Enjoy! Saw him with Wednesday last year at the Factory (which tbh feels like a weird RSL venue) - so good!

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

Bar chart showing levels of dissatisfaction with access to housing by young people in
OECD countries

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Mar 12

Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001

Picture of an ECOP1001 Lecture Theatre at the University of Sydney

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