# Melinda Cooper

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The Dig: Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the single-family suburban home to the stock market. This revanchist offensive sought to enforce not o…

FreshEd #402 – What do tax cuts really mean? (Melinda Cooper)

Today we explore tax cuts as a form of government expenditure and what that means for social inequality, politics, and government services. My guest is Melinda Cooper. Melinda Cooper is a professor in the School of Sociology in the Colelge of Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National Unive…

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficits. Deep cuts to the social wage like welfare reform disciplined labor so severely that Fed Chair Al…

The Dig: From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficits. Deep cuts to the social wage like welfare reform disciplined labor so severely that Fed chair Al…

Higher ed’s rush to adopt AI with Justin Raden

grift, edtech, enshittification References and suggested readings: Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed’s Rush to Adopt AI is About So Much More Than AI. Defector.  American Vandal podcast and Substack Moira Weigel. “Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School.” b2o Molly White [citation needed] Gi…

[Eng] MELINDA COOPER - REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM

This interview was conducted in English. Find this interview and its explanatory dossier at https://www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/revolutionary-conservatism  Duration: 1h56 Melinda Cooper is currently professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She earned her Doctorat…

Academics in the Epstein files with Andy Hines

References and suggested readings:  Alan Blinder. February 16, 2026. Epstein’s Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising. New York Times. William Callison and Quinn Slobodian. January 12, 2021. Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol. Boston Review. Melinda Cooper. F…

Utopia’s Spare Parts: Star Trek & Ishiguro

The “Hideous Bargain” moves from metaphor to the operating table. In this episode, we let loose the bonds of metaphor in Le Guin’s “Omelas” and meet the visceral reality of clinical labor. We examine how the “Sanitization of Language” allows societies—from the United Federation of Planets to mode…

Panel Discussion: Silicon Valley and the End-times: The Law, Politics and Economy of Apocalypse

Please join Professor Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Dr Richard Joyce (Melbourne Law School), Dr Adil Hasan Khan (Melbourne Law School) and Professor James Martel (San Francisco State University) as they discuss Silicon Valley billionaires and apocalyptic thinking. This discussion…

EPISODE 1: The shortest history of capitalism

It’s Praxis! A podcast from The Green Institute on understanding the economy, and how it dominates our lives. For this limited series, we’re speaking to leading experts in critical economics from across Australia, tackling the biggest questions and giving you the tools to critique common economic s…