Adam David Morton

Deweaponizing Interdependence - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Against a backdrop of various disintegrative tendencies, our new book Deweaponizing Interdependence: Bringing the Idea of International Clearing Union into the Twenty-First Century reintroduces the co...

Jamie Morgan and Heikki Patomäki launch their new book *Deweaponizing Interdependence* with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — sure to interest all on dollar hegemony and the New Cold War

I should also add, I had the pleasure of meeting Valpy Fitzgerald in 1996 and have used his outstanding scholarship on the state and economy of Mexico ever since.

Also is the postcard with an aerial view of Alameda Zaragoza in Saltillo (page 236 in the novel) a real photo postcard (RPPC) or fictional? 3/3

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You mention in an interview with Literary Hub, drawing from old guidebooks, maps, an old Baedeker’s for research on 1950s Saltillo. Can you offer in a thread what these sources are? What maps, guidebooks, or the specific copy of Baedeker? 2/

Following a tip by @isanchezprado.bsky.social
just finished Jessica Francis Kane *Fonseca* — the 1950s context of Penelope Fitzgerald in Saltillo, Coahuila reminded me of Sybille Bedford *A Visit to Don Otavio* in Lake Chapala, Jalisco @jfkane.bsky.social 1/

Obviously named by a logical positivist

RBA Must Not Repeat its Post-COVID Errors - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Inflation took a surprising and unwelcome jump in Australia in the final months of 2025. After peaking at almost 8% year-over-year in late 2022, inflation rapidly declined – reflecting both the repair...

Your appointment reading on @ppesydney.bsky.social today is Jim Stanford unveiling the hidden supply chain factors (electricity, food, child care, housing) driving the RBA’s latest flawed rise in interest rates
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You’ve done a great job. Few months of growth still left, then see it all grow back in 12 months. Well done💪🏽

Looks good! The lumps and bumps will become hidden after the grass has grown a bit. Looks like gypsum clay breaker, in your second photo. Perfect!

Essential reading 👇🏽👇🏽
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Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry Polycrisis has become a widely used concept. Politicians, public intellectuals and academics alike are drawing on it when describing our cur...

Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/02/diss... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social @jokubassalyga.bsky.social

Through his own generosity, managed to pick up this classic today from @garethbryant.bsky.social — previously owned by Stuart Rosewarne in Political Economy @sydney.edu.au
THANK YOU!

Fantastic to see @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social in paperback in the @manchesterup.bsky.social PPE Series. Accompany blog post here:

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Fantastic to receive this book from Matthew Costa @plutopress.bsky.social

E. H. Carr and F. A. Hayek: the road to international order - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) What does Hayek have to say that may interest approaches to the political economy of state formation and thinking on ‘the international’ today?

What were F.A. Hayek’s insights on international order and what was his beef with E.H. Carr on this theme? A follow up to my article in @iajournal.bsky.social

Reading Gramsci: Interpretation, appropriation or negotiation? - Adam David Morton, 2012

With a link to my Capital & Class article that pursues the distinction between the three

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say? Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

Reading Gramsci: interpretion, appropriation or negotiation?

Wonderful to hear about your research! Yes, please direct message me with your contact details. I’d be very grateful to receive your PhD and will read your article too in Studies in East European Thought!

Marx on the beach: the forgotten story of Yugoslavia’s rebel communist summer school Blending beachside holiday with intellectual freedom, the Korčula summer school provided sun and socialist comradeship

Does anybody know more about the intellectual circle of the Praxis, or Korčula Summer School, a forum for critical, non-dogmatic Marxism in Yugoslavia, where figures such as Henri Lefebvre, alongside Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, and Lucien Goldmann were involved?
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Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism. YouTube video by CSSGJ

The recording of my @cssgj.bsky.social talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-... It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!

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 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...

Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...

What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Found in one of my volumes of the Collected Works of V.I. Lenin - a packet label from the Kalinin Printing Works (now the city of Tver) of Progress Publishers, with my collected set

What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?

This blog post originally featured on my personal blog For the Desk Drawer, which now no longer exists. I thought it was transferred to @ppesydney.bsky.social but this was not so. Here it is for for the first time on PPE.

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, a focus on a class-relational account of development banks in the mid-twentieth century can better assist understanding the hothousing for development
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Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation wa...

Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated
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The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

Now that’s what I call some Pashukanis — For the student members of the @ppesydney.bsky.social Past & Present Reading Group @rikiscanlan.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into 'great spaces' found a new advocate in Trump? | Brendan Simms Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitic...

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