Had a short piece called “We have never been neoliberal” published today on the website New Left Project: “This has been written as a response to Jason Hickel’s recent article for NLP on neoliberalism. While I… Read More »We have never been neoliberal
The RGS-IBG Annual Conference is being held in Edinburgh this year since the Olympics will be disrupting London during much of August (if not before). I’m presenting a paper on ‘sustainable infrastructure’ in a session… Read More »RGS-IBG Conference 2012
I received an (unexpected) email from someone (Ted Dove) who’d actually read my previous posts – something that didn’t necessarily occur to me would happen. That is, that someone would actually read what I’d written… Read More »Brutal truths about academia continued …
I’ve been reading some rather depressing blogs etc. recently about the difficulties facing new academics in the labour market. It’s not necessarily professional interest that has led me to these blogs, even though there is… Read More »Brutal truths about academia
This post arises from a very recent referee response that particularly got my goat – see link here (Ref1, second review). Bearing in mind that my state of annoyance may not make what I say… Read More »How to be a good referee (hopefully!)
These are some great papers I’ve read over the last year or so – I’ll gradually add something about their content when I have the time (and maybe some more papers): Davies, W. 2010. Economics… Read More »Great papers I’ve read in the last year and a bit….
The Capitalist Mode of Power: Past, Present, Future conference 20 October-21 October 2011Senate Chamber, Ross Building (room N940), York University, Toronto Keynote Speakers Bob Jessop, Lancaster UniversityMichael Perelman, California State UniversityL. Randall Wray, University of… Read More »The Second Annual Forum on Capital as Power
The end of neoliberalism — and the beginning of a new story? Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds pages 59-60, v.2 2011.Published on balticworlds.com on June 30, 2011. By Ilja Viktorov The ideological… Read More »REVIEW: The Rise & Fall of Neoliberalism
Biofuels, Food and the Bio-based Economy Session Outline: Climate change, sustainability and the idea of ‘greening’ or ‘transitioning’ the economy have risen and fallen as public and policy concerns over the last few years. The… Read More »Call for Papers: AAG 2012, New York, 24th – 28th February
Here’s yet another interesting graph which shows the relationship between real interest rates and real house prices. Source: see previous posts.