Delighted to launch my new project, bringing new perspectives from public choice theory and entangled political economy to the study of Britain’s historical participation in plantation slavery and the slave trade, generously funded by @templetonfdn.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/project...
A major new research project led by @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social will explore the political and economic foundations of British slavery 📚
Dr Meadowcroft has received funding for the three-year project from @templetonfdn.bsky.social
Read more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/project...
Fascinating example of what happens if you engage in zero introspection
Great to talk to my co-author and former @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social PhD student @ottolehto.bsky.social about Buchanan, academia and the genesis of the Department of Political Economy youtu.be/uplFDPY8IPU
New article by John Meadowcroft @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social on "Nozick and the Invisible Hand of Racial Injustice" out in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Congratulations Nigel!
On 25 April we are hosting Simone Chambers who will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Is there a Future for Deliberative Democracy? Democratic Theory in the Age of Oligarchs, Autocrats, and Patriarchs’. Sign-up to attend here: tinyurl.com/yc2vewf6
Judging by the attire it very possibly is us
NEW: Elon Musk, leading Trump’s haphazard effort to cut government overspending, is among the largest beneficiaries of federal government support. His empire was built on it.
In the past 15 years, Tesla and SpaceX have sucked in $30 billion in public dollars #doge www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
Is there any hope for liberalism and democracy in Russia? Great reporting by @sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Title page of essay in open copy of Public Affairs Quarterly 38.3
In Public Affairs Quarterly 38.3, @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social argues that Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" has been misread as a defense capitalism's inequalities. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/paq/article/38/3/173...
Cover of Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 2024 Yellow letters spell "PAQ" at the top of the page on an orange rectangle, with a thin blue rectangle below separating it from the rest of the beige background.
Vol. 38, Iss. 3 of Public Affairs Quarterly is out online! Featuring contributors @dweltman.bsky.social , Nicholas Kreuder, Nicole Hassoun, @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social , and Bouke de Vries (whose article is free to access!) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/paq/issue/38/3
The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything:
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
Recently published paper on the constitutional political economy of James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom, co-authored with @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Recent book by recent former KCL PhD student and fine scholar Matias Petersen: www.routledge.com/Political-Ec...
A letter on Philosophy & Public Affairs letterhead that reads: November 12, 1973 Professor Robert Nozick Department of Philosophy Emerson Hall Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Dear Professor Nozick, I have been meaning to send you a note ever since you did not telephone the second time last week just to say that I decided after all to drop the offending post-apostrophes from the possessive of Rawls. This is, as I told you, according to the Chicago Manual of Style an honor due only to Moses and Jesus, but with us aesthetic considerations won out. The decision puts us somewhat in a class by ourselves -- I note that in Brian Barry's new book he and Oxford Press write Rawls's -- but I don't mind being different. I trust that you will not. sincerely， Margot Cutter
November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.
Interesting paper suggesting private schools don’t add value in exam results, but select pupils who would perform well in any school. That said, I suspect many parents pay for private schooling to purchase cultural capital and access to exclusive social networks for their children
Elinor & Vincent Ostrom did vital research on self-governance, polycentricity, democracy, social dilemmas, coproduction, public entrepreneurship, & the commons.
A starter pack featuring scholars who advance this research agenda. go.bsky.app/GwUPgW4
Suggested additions welcome.
A man is holding a flying dragon on a line.
Take your dragon out for a fly.
This is an #earlymodern advice (from Athanasius Kircher), on how to and when to use your private #dragon to make an impression. The image is part of Kircher's 1678 "Mundus Subterraneus" (access: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1... ), and ...
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How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A new comparative study of New York City‘s pandemic school shutdowns is out - written together with the brilliant @klatt.bsky.social
A starter pack of starter packs for UK media & politics.
UK Journos New, Podcasts
go.bsky.app/VB1hZZk
UK MPs
go.bsky.app/LrPkHJJ
FT Journalists
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
BBC journalists
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
Channel 4 News Journalists
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Prospect journalists
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Our first BlueSky post!
Open access paper by William Ascher.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My new article published in Public Affairs Quarterly reappraises Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia as a work of ideal theory that proposes an accont of the emergence of the state as a new moral foundation for liberal thought and practice: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
A starter pack of my brilliant colleagues and former colleagues in political science, economics, and around and about the place. Under construction, will share again when we have momentum go.bsky.app/KpPy48W
