Mark Pennington

Mark Pennington is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at King’s College London where he directs the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society.

Articles

Ideas

What Michel Foucault can teach us about modern Britain

Britain and much of the Western world is economically stagnant, and many long-standing liberties are threatened by public and private surveillance systems that narrow people’s freedom. In my new book, I locate this state of affairs in the dominant narratives that govern our age. No one did more to examine the power of these narratives, […]

Policy

More government action can’t fix Britain

This is an edited version of remarks delivered by the author as part of Civic Future’s ‘The New Wild West’ summit. Should the state play a larger role in the UK economy? My answer is “no” – many problems that Britain faces are down to too much government action and too much of the wrong […]

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