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Professor Adam D. Morton
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @AdamDavidMorton
 For
the Desk Drawer:
 http://adamdavidmorton.com/
 Progress
in Political Economy:
 http://ppesydney.net/
 Why
blog?: ‘every teacher is always a
pupil’
 Beyond
 Triple
self-promotion!
publishing
 Teaching
 Social
Supplement
media the core of teaching
 ECOP2613
Political
Economy of Global
Capitalism
 2014
and the rise of
Thomas Piketty
 Piketty
Digests
#ECOP2613
 Classroom
benefits:
 different original form of engagement
 content related to learning outcomes
 tailored questions ending each post
 Comprehensive coverage of income
inequality, growth, capital-labour
struggles, the social state, progressive
income tax and public debt
 Wider literature pertinent in and beyond
the class
 The outcomes:
 student testimonies
 July – November: 40,000
page views or more
than 2,000 per blog post
 United Kingdom, the United States,
Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil,
and Turkey
 Local-global links: University College
Dublin; UC Berkeley; Oxford Brookes
University

Conclusion: Sweat and toil