by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 26, 2016 | Accord, Anti-politics, Australian Economy, Australian History
I recently had a short piece, co-authored by Tad Tietze, printed in response to George Megalogenis’ essay ‘Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal’. The Megalogenis essay is available in Quarterly Essay Issue 61, and our response in...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 4, 2016 | Accord, Australian History, Neoliberalism
Audio of my seminar at the University of Sydney, exploring the Accord in the context of neoliberalism in Australia is now online here.
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 11, 2015 | Australian History, Neoliberalism
Many people associate the beginning of neoliberalism with the election of conservative governments influenced by the New Right and theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. A useful question to ask, then, is why didn’t the vanguard neoliberal period...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 19, 2015 | Gramsci
This post was first published at Progress in Political Economy, the blog of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Click here for the audio of my talk on Soundcloud. *** Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 17, 2015 | Accord, Neoliberalism
The 14th Biennial National Labour History Conference, ‘Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century’ was held at Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, 11-13 February 2015. My paper on ‘The Accord after Thirty Years: Corporatism...