Mark Pennington

Last updated

Mark Pennington
NationalityBritish
Education London School of Economics
Occupation(s)Economist, scientist
Known forProfessor of Political Economy and Public Policy at King's College London

Mark Pennington is a British political scientist and economist. He serves as a Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at King's College London.

Contents

Early life

Pennington received a PhD from the London School of Economics. [1] His thesis, dated 1998, was titled Property rights, public choice and urban containment: A study of the British planning system. [2]

Career

He is a Professor of Political Economy at King's College London. [1] He is a co-editor of The Review of Austrian Economics . [3] His work engages critics of the classical liberal and libertarian traditions and includes contributions on public choice theory, Friedrich Hayek, urban planning, environmental governance and the theory of democratic deliberation.

He served on the board of trustees of the Institute of Economic Affairs between 2008 and November 2018. [4] . He is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King's College London [5]

Works

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Political economy</span> Study of the development of social production

Political economy is the study of how economic systems and political systems are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour markets and financial markets, as well as phenomena such as growth, distribution, inequality, and trade, and how these are shaped by institutions, laws, and government policy. Originating in the 16th century, it is the precursor to the modern discipline of economics. Political economy in its modern form is considered an interdisciplinary field, drawing on theory from both political science and modern economics.

An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James M. Buchanan</span> American economist (1919–2013)

James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, The Calculus of Consent, then developed over decades for which he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. He was a member of the Board of Advisors of The Independent Institute as well as of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) and MPS president from 1984 to 1986, a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and professor at George Mason University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Mirrlees</span> British Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dani Rodrik</span> Turkish economist

Dani Rodrik is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of the Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. The question of what constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are more successful than others at adopting it is at the center of his research. His works include Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science and The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. He is also joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Global Policy.

Richard M. Ebeling is an American libertarian author who was the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008. Ebeling is currently the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oliver Hart (economist)</span> American economist

Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart is a British-born American economist, currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University</span> School of Columbia University in New York

The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City. It is consistently ranked one of the top graduate schools for international relations in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elinor Ostrom</span> American political economist (1933–2012)

Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Public policy school</span>

A public policy school is typically a university program that teaches students policy analysis, policy studies, public policy, political economy, urban planning, public administration, international relations, security studies, political science, urban studies, intelligence studies, global studies, emergency management, public affairs and/or public management. Public policy schools typically train students in two streams. The more practical stream treats the master's degree as a terminal degree, which trains students to work as policy analysts or practitioners in governments, government relations, think tanks, and consulting firms. A more theoretical stream aims to train students who are aiming to go on to complete doctoral studies, with the goal of becoming professors of public policy, political science in general, or researchers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Besley</span> British academic economist

Sir Timothy John Besley, is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patrick Dunleavy</span>

Patrick John Dunleavy, is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). He was also Co-Director of Democratic Audit and Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. In addition Dunleavy is an ANZSOG Institute for Governance Centenary Chair at the University of Canberra, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Tollison</span> American economist

Robert D. Tollison was an American economist who specialized in public choice theory.

John Halstead Hardman Moore CBE FBA FRSE is an economic theorist. He was appointed George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics in 2000. In 2018 he was appointed the David Hume University Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.

Vincent Alfred Ostrom was an American political economist and the Founding Director of the Ostrom Workshop based at Indiana University and the Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He and his wife, the political economist Elinor Ostrom, made numerous contributions to the field of political science, political economy, and public choice.

Rorden Wilkinson FAcSS FRSA is a British academic and author. He is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Professor of International Political Economy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of International Political Economy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Global Political Economy, and a Fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex; and Professor of International Political Economy and Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. He did his doctoral work and began his academic career at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a visiting scholar at Brown University, USA, Wellesley College, USA, and the Australian National University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Department of International Development, King's College London</span>

The Department of International Development (DID) is an inter-disciplinary development department located within the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy in the school of Global Affairs at King's College London. DID was launched in 2013 with a focus on the phenomena faced by middle-income developing countries. Its research revolves around development theory, political economy, economics, geography, and social policy.

Kenneth George Young FAcSS FRHistS was a British political scientist and historian who was Professor of Public Policy at King's College London in its Department of War Studies. Earlier he was instrumental in the creation of the Department of Political Economy at KCL in 2010, and was its founding head of department.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur C. Nelson</span> American urban planning professor

Arthur C. Nelson is an American urban planner, researcher and academic. He is Professor of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development at the University of Arizona.

References

  1. 1 2 "Mark Pennington: Professor of Political Economy: King's College, University of London". Learn Liberty: Explore the ideas of a free society. Institute for Humane Studies . Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. Pennington, Mark (1998). Property rights, public choice and urban containment: A study of the British planning system (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  3. "The Review of Austrian Economics". Springer Publishing . Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  4. "People". Institute of Economic Affairs . Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  5. https://csgs.kcl.ac.uk/