Australian Review of Political Economy

reviews of books, exhibitions and other texts on Australian and global political economy

The Review was established in order to publish the best reviews produced each year in the course money, power, war, at the Australian National University. The editor will also consider offers of other submissions.

Volume 8, 2008

Chris Clarke reviews Michael Pollan In Defence of Food

Laura Hogan reviews Raj Patel Stuffed and starved: markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system

Volume 7, 2007

Eamon Byrnes reviews Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison (eds) Silencing dissent

James Dawson reviews Mark Thomas As used on the famous Nelson Mandela: underground adventures in the arms and torture trade

Ed McDonald reviews Joseph Stiglitz Making globalisaiton work

Rhys Williams reviews Francis Wheen Marx’s Das Kapital

Volume 6, 2006

Tom Browne reviews Steven Poole Unspeak

Karen Fettell reviews Leslie Cannold What, no baby? Why women have lost the freedom to mother and how they can get it back

Sean Williams reviews Elisabeth Wynhausen Dirt cheap: life at the wrong end of the job market

Volume 5, 2005

Tim Hicks reviews Diamond Collapse: how societies choose to fail and survive

Marco Krischer reviews Jonathan Neale What’s Wrong with America?

Hannah McCann reviews Jonathan Neale What’s Wrong with America?

Volume 4, 2004

Rosie Barnes reviews John Pilger New rulers of the world

Ben Lyons reviews Noam Chomsky Hegemony or survival

David O'Hara reviews Verity Burgmann Power, profit and protest

Stephanie Otorepec reviews Anne Summers The end of equality

Harry Paternoster reviews Fahrenheit 9/11

Volume 3, 2003

Stuart Gourley reviews Joseph Stiglitz Globalization and its discontents

Simon Noble reviews Clive Hamilton Growth fetish

Annie Spence reviews Noam Chomsky Power and terror

Volume 2, 2002

Genevieve Blanchett reviews Arundhati Roy Power politics

Chris Cook reviews Michael Moore Stupid white men

Brett Muller reviews Michael Moore Stupid white men too, but from a very different perspective

Kate Twinning reviews Peter Mares Borderline: Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum

Volume 1, 2001

Sarah Avery reviews Rob Johnson Cash for comment: the seduction of journo culture

Scott Harlum reviews Frank Stilwell Changing track: a new political economic direction for Australia

Kester Tong reviews The First Australians gallery at the National Museum of Australia

Sam Willis reviews Michael Zweig The working class majority: America's best kept secret