Gareth Bryant
@garethbryant.bsky.social
Political Economy at the University of Sydney
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.
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.
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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...
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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! @abieler.bsky.social
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...
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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
The BREAK–DOWN
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Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · last yr.Excited for @adriennebuller.bsky.social in conversation w @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian at Break-Down launch party
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...
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Interesting to read this corporate sense-check on UTS restructuring plans www.afr.com/work-and-car...
Inflationary impacts on house prices are precisely *why* these policies are favoured over other options www.afr.com/politics/fed...
From cloth and wine to made up trade formulas, comparative advantage lives on! Via @matt-levine.bsky.social
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
Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001
My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
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LA fires: private firefighters of first resort; state insurers of last resort www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Los Angeles Fires Become Existential Test for California’s Stopgap Insurer
The most expensive wildfire in US history could put a $5 billion hole in the state-sponsored home insurer of last resort.
bloomberg.com
I keep thinking about this (of course). The post poses a question - not the one asked explicitly, but: at what point might climate change make those with power care enough to do something about it?
Wrote about DOGE, technofascist fantasies, and the upcoming personalization of the bailout state for Jacobin Magazine. jacobin.com/2025/01/trum...
Trump’s Bailout Philosophy: Too Loyal to Fail
Donald Trump’s second term won’t bring smaller government as promised. Instead, it will replace regulations with a system of executive grace and favor. The old bailout standard of “too big to fail” wi...
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Inter-generational inequality or class inequality? “In the next 25 years, over $100tn in assets — ranging from property, aged wines and artwork — will be transferred from the boomers and older generations to their heirs in the US alone” on.ft.com/3VVkwVe
The great wealth transfer
Big inheritances are set to transform economies, markets and society
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If you were to write a piece on carbon removal at the end of 2024, would it be about billionaires investing in a "gold rush"? Or about flight from a sector that has no clear and durable business model, in the face of decreasing climatetech funding and net-zero talk? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...
Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush
Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.
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Last week, at the University of Sydney's Climate Economy workshop, I presented my observations on how the IRA has (somewhat) helped build *state capacity* across American govt institutions, and what that says about how economic development here works: publicenterprise.org/state-capaci...
State capacity: The Inflation Reduction Act, American federalism, and infrastructure finance
On December 3, 2024, CPE Senior Associate for Energy Finance Advait Arun presented at the University of Sydney's Climate Economy political economy and geography workshop about how the Inflation Reduct...
publicenterprise.org
It's just amazing to me that after almost two decades of highly visible bailouts and backstops, intelligent commentators can still see a bubble that will burst, rather than claims that must and will be protected. www.ft.com/content/49cc...
The mother of all bubbles
The US has never been so overhyped, relative to the rest of the world
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