by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 31, 2017 | Pedagogy
Lessons in radical economic pedagogy. This post was co-authored by Keith Heggart and myself, and posted on the UTS Learning and Teaching blog and the Progress in Political Economy blog. Take a walk In the first chapter of Economics for Everyone, Jim Stanford argues...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 7, 2017 | Accord, Australian Economy, Australian History, Neoliberalism
Last week I was interviewed on the wonderful ‘Living the Dream’ podcast. We discussed the Accord, neoliberalism and the ALP Hawke-Keating government. Our focus was on recent articles by Van Badham and Wayne Swan in The Guardian, and how the ALP and unions...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Apr 6, 2017 | Sport and Culture
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Jackie Lynch. This article first appeared on Overland Journal. The AFLW (Women’s Australian Football League) has happened and we couldn’t be happier about it, even if that happiness is often expressed in joyous weeping. There’s something...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 13, 2017 | Anti-politics, Gramsci
The following is the text of a presentation I gave this week, as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’. *** If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 11, 2017 | Capitalism, Technology
I recently took part in an episode of Think: Digital Futures, on ‘Will artificial intelligence destroy capitalism?’: There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence is going to be smarter than humans — they’re already driving cars and sorting...
