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Adam Morton was a Canadian philosopher. Morton's work focused on how we understand one another's behaviour in everyday life, with… more

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Reposted by: Adam Morton, Adam David Morton

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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...
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by Adam Morton — Reposted by: Christopher Wright

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Edited by Frank Stilwell, the latest issue of Journal of Australian Political Economy celebrates 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney as a discipline. More events later in the year!
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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by Adam Morton

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Come and join all of us and the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, @garethbryant.bsky.social as host of the 18th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Memorial Lecture that will be given by Raewyn Connell | 10 September 2025 | Sign up for the free lecture in the link below
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...
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by Adam Morton

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Handing over the hosting of @iliasalami.bsky.social from USyd - thanks to @garethbryant.bsky.social - to UQ - thanks to @shaharhameiri.bsky.social and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social with this piece of his on state capitalism as your catch up reading.
State Capitalist Mutations under Trump 2.0 - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Economic historians may thus remember Trump 2.0 as the great accelerator of 21st-century state capitalism, a historically specific form of capitalism whereby the fusion of private and state capital re...
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Completing the thread
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by Adam Morton

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Here's a precis on some of the issues by @j0eb0gan.bsky.social
Getting to the bottom of this ‘shitty rent business’… - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The rent-seeking argument emerging out of the progressive side of the mainstream economics community runs something like this: the top 1% are socially unproductive and receive obscene amounts of money...
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by Adam Morton

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Sorting out, as Marx put it, this “shitty rent business”, has been a long and winding road. Out soon with @plutopress.bsky.social is Matthew Costa's new book, which is set to vivify new rounds of debate on rent theory.
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Mother of Capital
Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rent...
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by Adam Morton — Reposted by: Andreas Bieler

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Revisiting, this week, this piece in Socialist Register 2024, written with @abieler.bsky.social, following various conversations on the geopolitics of war (and peace) and global capitalism @therealelliotde.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Reframing the Geopolitics of Global Capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In our latest essay in Socialist Register 2024 on the Ukraine War we deliver a contribution to understanding contemporary geopolitics without shying away from placing our concerns within an analysis o...
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by Adam Morton — Reposted by: Andreas Bieler

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Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”
Beyond intersectional political economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature in the constitution and reproduction of capitalism, and is discrimination based on race also an in-built necessary element in the making and remak...
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That’s a big loss!

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No longer at UTRGV?
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“Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy” with @davidaviles.bsky.social is now out in Volume 57 Issue 5, of @economyandspace.bsky.social and Open Access 👇🏽
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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by Adam Morton

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What a superb book
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by Adam Morton

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From my research on the Monument to the Revolution, here are four postage stamps. My assumption was that there was just one, the far right one from 1934. But here are more. My favorite is the far left one on the XVI International Congress of Planning & Housing (1938). More here👇🏽
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by Adam Morton — Reposted by: Adam David Morton

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Straight on to my reading list for ECOP3613 Global Capitalism: Uneven Development
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jul 31
My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...

thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft
Towards a new dialectics of dependency theory | Alternautas
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Reposted by: Adam Morton

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My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...

thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft
Towards a new dialectics of dependency theory | Alternautas
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by Adam Morton

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Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear shaping today's war on education? Here @damiencahill.bsky.social surveys the terrain
Fear, solidarity, courage and the war on education - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear s...
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by Adam Morton

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This table is largely from Mike Davis *Ecology of Fear* from @versobooks.bsky.social
But I’ve put together a thumbnail comparison on the last two lines with 1) the cost of the 2025 Palisades Fire and 2) the 2020 Black Summer in Australia. Look at the magnitude of territory and death.
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by Adam Morton

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3) Is there communality and the production of a text-in-common evident in U.S. authors that also pass through the sites and languages of Latin America to thus connect a diverse lineage of writers?

4) Can disappropriation in literature connect writers from Latin America as well the U.S.? 3/3

by Adam Morton

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2) If disappropriation is a being-in-common, is there also literature from U.S. authors that translanguages (in English and Spanish) that could be seen as travelling across the territories, sites and languages of Latin America? 2/3
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by Adam Morton

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Four linked questions about the wonderful book *The Restless Dead* by @criveragarza.bsky.social. Drawing inspiration from her text:
1) What other authors might be disappropriationist at heart, which have passed through Latin America but without having been born there? 1/3 @isanchezprado.bsky.social
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Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia
The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as B...
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Yes it’s that economy of infrastructure that the report explores well, I think. The ongoing transformation of space into ever harder militarised borders. Perhaps a focus on the Tohono Oʼodham perspective was missing.

by Adam Morton

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US troop deployments at the border with Mexico have tripled to 7,600 and include every branch of the military – as the number of attempted illegal crossings has plummeted and an additional 3,000 border patrol agents have been authorised, offering $10,000 signing and retention bonuses.
‘Deterrence is boring’: the US troops at sharp end of Trump’s border crackdown
Armored vehicles, hi-tech surveillance systems and squadrons of drones: inside the militarized buildup at the US-Mexico border
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Short summary available here
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It’ll be a treat having you back ✊🏽
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by Adam David Morton — Reposted by: Adam Morton, Adam David Morton

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Returning to the University of Sydney in August is @iliasalami.bsky.social speaking on 'Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance' - details below!! 👇
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Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
International Political Economy (IPE) as a discipline increasingly acknowledges the significance of racial oppression and inequalities. Yet these are often seen as separate from, or coinciding with, f...
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by Adam Morton

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How to reflect on the political economy of pornography?
Lucy Carozza and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social draw insights from a reading of Andrea Dworkin’s classic text on men possessing women
Can the Left Have Pornography and its Politics Too? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Andrea Dworkin’s book, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, has recently been republished. It addresses the material conditions of women’s subjugation, with specific reference to the political economy o...
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Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever @georgelawson.bsky.social
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Up to No.9 in the @ppesydney.bsky.social all time Top Ten posts is Sirma Altun on Henri Lefebvre and The Production of Space
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Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
What is the unitary theory of space that is awaiting to be discovered in The Production of Space? “Intellectual labour, like material labour, is subject to endless division”, Lefebvre says. “The aim i...
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