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Gareth Bryant is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney. He works as a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Political Economy and as 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). His research has been published in a range of academic journals including Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Antipode, Energy Policy, the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space,and New Political Economy.
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 Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project on energy transitions.
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.
Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)
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