Associate Professor Gareth Bryant
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Associate Professor Gareth Bryant

B Economics and Social Science (Honours) Sydney, PhD Sydney
Chair of Discipline of Political Economy
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Associate Professor Gareth Bryant

Gareth Bryant is Chair of the Discpline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and economist-in-residence with the Sydney Policy Lab.

Gareth is a political economist who researches how public policy and public finance can create more sustainable, equal and democratic economies. His research has focused on issues including climate finance, renewable energy, higher education, housing, labour and Indigenous justice.

Gareth is the author of Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism (Cambridge University Press 2019), Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures (Agenda Publishing 2024, with Sophie Webber) and Decarbonising Electricity: The Promise of Renewable Energy Regions (Cambridge University Press 2024, with James Goodman et al.).

Gareth has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for 2021-24 for a project investigating new spaces of fiscal power in an asset-based economy. Previously he was a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project on energy transitions and was awarded the Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Prize for early career researchers at the University of Sydney. Gareth was also awarded the Global Network for Financial Geography (FINGEO) dissertation prize and the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) journal article prize.

Gareth teaches across the pluralist, heterodox and radical Political Economy program at the University of Sydney. He has taught units of study on the political economy of the environment, the history of economic thought, and the dynamics of global capitalism, among others. Gareth is a recipient of a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.

Gareth co-edits the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) online blog and associated Manchester University Press book series. Gareth and Adam David Morton were jointly awarded the Special Achievement prize from the Online Media Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA) for their work as co-editors of the blog.

Project titleResearch student
Complexity in Economics: Foundations and Appropriate ModellingDennis VENTER

Selected publications

Publications

Books

  • Bryant, G., Webber, S. (2023). Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
  • Bryant, G. (2019). Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Spies-Butcher, B., Bryant, G. (2023). Public budgeting and resource management. In P. Chen, N. Barry, J. Butcher, D. Clune, I. Cook, A. Garnier, Y Haigh et al (Eds.), Australian Politics and Policy: Senior Edition, (pp. 915-937). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Bryant, G. (2022). Who should pay for university? Eight logics of higher education funding in Australia. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good, (pp. 133-149). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Spies-Butcher, B., Bryant, G. (2018). Universities: A Paradox of Privatisation. In D. Cahill, P. Toner (Eds.), Wrong Way: How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired, (pp. 239-253). Carlton: La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc.

Journals

  • Bryant, G., Spies-Butcher, B., Stebbing, A. (2024). Comparing asset-based welfare capitalism: wealth inequality, housing finance and household risk. Housing Studies, 39(2). [More Information]
  • Bryant, G., Spies-Butcher, B. (2024). The history and future of the tax state: Possibilities for a new fiscal politics beyond neoliberalism. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 98, 102596. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2023). Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century. Sociology, 57(2), 348-365. [More Information]

Conferences

  • Paton, J., Bryant, G. (2010). PriceLess! The value of pollution and sustainable climate change. 9th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2010, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Konings, M., Bryant, G., Adkins, L. (2022). Asset Politics: Why debt is not the main problem. Arena Quarterly, 12. [More Information]
  • Konings, M., Adkins, L., Bryant, G. (2021). Bidens Spending Bill Wont Save The Middle Class. Noema. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2020). HomeBuilder only makes sense as a nod to Morrison's home-owning voter base. The Conversation. [More Information]

Report

  • Bryant, G., Stilwell, F. (2019). 'Squeezing Services? How the NSW Government can overcome its new fiscal constraints' Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney.

Other

  • Black, A., Dawson, A., Bryant, G., Gilbert, G., Marais, B., McBryde, E. (2020), Living with COVID-19: Planning Policy for the Next Stage.
  • Boucher, A., Bryant, G., Conley Wright, A., Cooper, R., Gauja, A., Iveson, K., Stears, M., Tattersall, A., Soutphommasane, T. (2020), Principles for a policy response to COVID-19.

Research Reports

  • Tattersall, A., Bryant, G., Hancock, R., Napier, I., Stears, M. (2020). A Real Deal: A research action agenda for transforming Australia in and beyond the pandemic, (pp. 1 - 100). Sydney, Australia, Australia: Sydney Policy Lab.
  • Parfitt, C., Bryant, G., Barrett, L. (2012). Aid and the Private Sector: Catalysing Poverty Reduction and Development? | Chapter 2 Frameworks to Enable Postive Development Practice | Australia's Mining for Development Initiative: Blurring the Boundaries Between Private Profit and Public Development, Reality of Aid 2012 Report, (pp. 61 - 69). Quezon City, Philippines: The Reality of Aid Network.

2024

  • Bryant, G., Spies-Butcher, B., Stebbing, A. (2024). Comparing asset-based welfare capitalism: wealth inequality, housing finance and household risk. Housing Studies, 39(2). [More Information]
  • Bryant, G., Spies-Butcher, B. (2024). The history and future of the tax state: Possibilities for a new fiscal politics beyond neoliberalism. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 98, 102596. [More Information]

2023

  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2023). Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century. Sociology, 57(2), 348-365. [More Information]
  • Bryant, G., Webber, S. (2023). Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
  • Troy, L., Wolifson, P., Buckley, A., Buckle, C., Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2023). Pathways to home ownership in an age of uncertainty. Final Report Series of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), (395), 1-87. [More Information]

2022

  • Konings, M., Bryant, G., Adkins, L. (2022). Asset Politics: Why debt is not the main problem. Arena Quarterly, 12. [More Information]
  • Parfitt, C., Bryant, G. (2022). Derivative Socionatures: Abstract risk and financial materiality in ESG integration. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4), 2365-2369. [More Information]
  • Webber, S., Nelson, S., Millington, N., Bryant, G., Bigger, P. (2022). Financing Reparative Climate Infrastructures: Capital switching, Repair, and Decommodification. Antipode, 54(3), 934-958. [More Information]

2021

  • Konings, M., Adkins, L., Bryant, G. (2021). Bidens Spending Bill Wont Save The Middle Class. Noema. [More Information]
  • Konings, M., Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Maalsen, S., Troy, L. (2021). Lock-in and lock-out: Covid-19 and the dynamics of the asset economy. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2021 (87), 20-47.
  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2021). The asset economy during and after the Covid-19 crisis. IPPR Progressive Review, 28(3), 243-252. [More Information]

2020

  • Tattersall, A., Bryant, G., Hancock, R., Napier, I., Stears, M. (2020). A Real Deal: A research action agenda for transforming Australia in and beyond the pandemic, (pp. 1 - 100). Sydney, Australia, Australia: Sydney Policy Lab.
  • Bryant, G., Spies-Butcher, B. (2020). Bringing finance inside the state: How income-contingent loans blur the boundaries between debt and tax. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(1), 111-129. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2020). HomeBuilder only makes sense as a nod to Morrison's home-owning voter base. The Conversation. [More Information]

2019

  • Bryant, G., Stilwell, F. (2019). 'Squeezing Services? How the NSW Government can overcome its new fiscal constraints' Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney.
  • Bryant, G. (2019). Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
  • Bryant, G., Stilwell, F. (2019). Sustainability and pluralist pedagogy: Creating an effective political economic fusion? International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 10(1), 7-23. [More Information]

2018

  • Spies-Butcher, B., Bryant, G. (2018). Accounting for Income-Contingent Loans as a Policy Hybrid: Politics of Discretion and Discipline in Financialising Welfare States. New Political Economy, 23(6), 768-785. [More Information]
  • Bryant, G. (2018). Nature as Accumulation Strategy? Finance, Nature, and Value in Carbon Markets. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(3), 605-619. [More Information]
  • Spies-Butcher, B., Bryant, G. (2018). Universities: A Paradox of Privatisation. In D. Cahill, P. Toner (Eds.), Wrong Way: How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired, (pp. 239-253). Carlton: La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc.

2016

  • Bryant, G. (2016). Creating a level playing field? The concentration and centralisation of emissions in the European Union Emissions Trading System. Energy Policy, 99, 308-318. [More Information]
  • Bryant, G. (2016). The politics of carbon market design: Rethinking the techno-politics and post-politics of climate change. Antipode, 48(4), 877-898. [More Information]

2015

  • Bryant, G., Dabhi, S., Bohm, S. (2015). 'Fixing' the climate crisis: Capital, states, and carbon offsetting in India. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 47(10), 2047-2063. [More Information]

2014

  • Bryant, G. (2014). When the 'Green Economy' Undermines Sustainability: Political, Economic and Ecological Dimensions of Carbon Markets. In Susan K. Schroeder, Lynne Chester (Eds.), Challenging the Orthodoxy: Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contribution to Political Economy, (pp. 243-254). Berlin: Springer. [More Information]

2012

  • Parfitt, C., Bryant, G., Barrett, L. (2012). Aid and the Private Sector: Catalysing Poverty Reduction and Development? | Chapter 2 Frameworks to Enable Postive Development Practice | Australia's Mining for Development Initiative: Blurring the Boundaries Between Private Profit and Public Development, Reality of Aid 2012 Report, (pp. 61 - 69). Quezon City, Philippines: The Reality of Aid Network.
  • Paton, J., Bryant, G. (2012). Valuing Pollution: Problems of price in the commodification of nature. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 23(1), 87-106. [More Information]

2010

  • Paton, J., Bryant, G. (2010). PriceLess! The value of pollution and sustainable climate change. 9th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2010, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.

Selected Grants

2023

  • Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century, Bryant G, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Open Access Publishing Fund

2021

  • The asset state: Comparing new models for financing public investment, Bryant G, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
  • Pathways to home ownership in an age of uncertainty 21/PRO/73273, Troy L, Adkins L, Konings M, Bryant G, Buckle C, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd (AHURI)/Research Grant