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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Perhaps the biggest gig in Sydney for Political Economy this year: the 50th anniversary celebration of the Department of Political Economy!! www.ppesydney.net/celebrating-...
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Making War Safe for Capitalism is out in a week with @brisunipress.bsky.social!

I'm honoured to share this endorsement from the fantastic Ukrainian scholar and sociologist Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko
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Just received!
Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽
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Fascinating little-known story of an Australian man who fought and died supporting Jakob Marengo's uprising against German colonial rule in Namibia in 1905:

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Odd that there’s seemingly less focus on Adventures of the Dialectic?
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“At a time when self-declared Nazis are using the internet to mobilise, new information systems are rapidly transforming the nature of work and traditional models of communication are crumbling, properly resourced sociology departments are what the public desperately needs”.
To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear | Van Badham
It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost
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A fantastic opportunity to discuss economy and space in the literary work of David Ireland with Brett Heino @gleebooks.bsky.social on 31 October. Register here👇🏽

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“Cold War II” (Fred Halliday) or a “structural Cold War” (Robert W. Cox) or a “Cold War of the mind” (Ken Booth) or the Cold War “annexation of the social sciences” (Pınar Bilgin and yours truly) that has never disappeared?

Come and find out at the next AIPEN 2026 with @shaharhameiri.bsky.social
Call for Papers: 2026 AIPEN Workshop: The International Political Economy in the Second Cold War - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
After decades of deepening economic integration, the world economy is increasingly challenged by rising geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry, notably, but not only, between the United States and China...
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But what’s the image?
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Books finished on this trip #EISABologna2025
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Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*
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What a brilliant read this was with its focus, from the Vermont landscape to the wider American west of the twentieth-century, on the inequality and dispossession of capitalism. The hell scape appears “crimson as the landscape seen through the red cellophane strip on cigarette packs”.
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"Whilst many of the reflections that follow this preface will touch on Political Economy’s colourful past, we should not neglect its value to us in the present and its importance to our nation in the future" -- Anthony Albanese, as one of the voices of former Political Economy students 👇
50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sy...
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