David Aviles

Do you know #artists who are working on a creative project and could benefit from a free stay on the beautiful hills close to Verona and Lake Garda, Italy?
Our brand new Artist in residence program Casa Dell’Angelo could be for them! Info and applications here: www.casadellangelo.org

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Now out:

Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City

Environment and Planning F

Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!

Call for Papers: 2026 AIPEN Workshop: The International Political Economy in the Second Cold War - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) After decades of deepening economic integration, the world economy is increasingly challenged by rising geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry, notably, but not only, between the United States and China...

“Cold War II” (Fred Halliday) or a “structural Cold War” (Robert W. Cox) or a “Cold War of the mind” (Ken Booth) or the Cold War “annexation of the social sciences” (Pınar Bilgin and yours truly) that has never disappeared?

Come and find out at the next AIPEN 2026 with @shaharhameiri.bsky.social

Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*

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...

“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 👇🏽

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...

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!

Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 5 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from financialization and land values to decommodification strategies and mass displacement. Link and ToC below:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...

Capitalism No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...

Capitalism is coming to the UK! It wasn't easy to pull this off--but here is my take on capitalism's global history. In a bookstore near you this fall.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...

Frontiers of human capital? women and the professions in the Angloworld This article explores the place of professional women in the history of capitalism. I do this using three intersecting lenses, the third, commodity frontiers, being the most important. Low-cost com...

New article by me on professional women as a ‘commodity frontier’ in the history of capitalism: The massive influx of women to white collar professions in the 1990s was the culmination of around a century of women’s efforts.

But then…

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Short summary available here

"Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy in Mexico and Chile" by David Avilés and Adam David Morton:

#importsubstitutionindustrialisation #LatinAmerica #mixedeconomy #primitiveaccumulation #statecapitalism

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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...

Returning to the University of Sydney in August is @iliasalami.bsky.social speaking on 'Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance' - details below!! 👇
@ppesydney.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

Very excited to give this talk in Sydney in early August, presenting new research (conducted with @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social) on race and finance.

Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...

Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

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

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...

A three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on "The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia" with @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber. A wonderful opportunity👇

www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...

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...

Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, our latest article in EPA builds on the emerging analysis of state capitalism to advance a class-relational account of development banks in Mexico and Chile during the mid-twentieth century hothousing for development

The Global Conference on Economic Geography 2025 is starting at Mechanics Hall in Worcester.
I am looking forward to the next 4 days of discussion! #GCEG2025 @clarkuniversity.bsky.social

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...

New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

A legend!
Emeritus Prof Frank Stilwell teaching Political Economy at USyd

Picture of an ECOP1001 Lecture Theatre at the University of Sydney

Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001

Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...

All our previous 32 texts completed in the reading group
www.ppesydney.net/past-present...

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David @morton.bsky.social, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. brill.com/view/journal...

Beyond Intersectional Political Economy, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2024/12/beyo... @morton.bsky.social

Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together.

I've made some free courses to help:

• Reading Capital v1
• Reading Capital v2
• Reading the Grundrisse
• Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
• The ABC of Contemporary Capital

davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) One of the purposes of the Past & Present Reading Group is to collectively read both classic and contemporary contributions to heterodox political economy and political theory broadly construed. Havin...

And yours truly on Fernando Henrique Cardoso And Enzo Faletto, *Dependency And Development In Latin America*
www.ppesydney.net/fernando-enr...

Amy C. Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Almost nine years after reading Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's Dependencia y Desarrollo en America Latina, the Past & Present Reading Group has come back to visit the history of Latin Am...

And also @davidaviles.bsky.social on Amy C. Offner, *Sorting Out The Mixed Economy: The Rise And Fall Of Welfare And Developmental States In The Americas*
www.ppesydney.net/amy-c-offner...

Milton Santos, The Nature of Space - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) The Past & Present Reading Group has reengaged its spatial turn since completing Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space; Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour; and Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Ci...

Plus @davidaviles.bsky.social on Milton Santos, *The Nature Of Space*
www.ppesydney.net/milton-santo...

Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) How are the works of Ruy Marini, Vania Bambirra and Theotônio dos Santos brought together by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira in Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina to offer a non-Eurocentric theo...

Over on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) there’s this review of Felipe Antunes De Oliveira, *Dependency And Crisis In Brazil And Argentina* by Flávia Soares Julius
www.ppesydney.net/felipe-antun...