John Meadowcroft
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Contact details:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2894
Email: john.meadowcroft@kcl.ac.uk
Biography
Dr John Meadowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, principally teaching on the MA Public Policy. His research interests lie in political economy and positive political theory. In particular, he has examined the ethics and limits of markets, the role of markets and governments in the generation of social capital, and economic and political responses to social problems.
John joined King’s in September 2006, having previously taught on the Hansard Scholars Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science and in the Department of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has also worked in the practical world of policy and politics, as Deputy Editorial Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs and Constituency Assistant and Caseworker to Simon Hughes MP. John has a first class degree in Public Policy and a PhD in Political Science from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
John is a Deputy Editor and Book Review Editor of the journal Economic Affairs. He is also Series Editor of a twenty-volume collection, Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers, published by Continuum from 2009 to 2011. He serves on the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs, on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Routledge series Annals of Bioethics and on the Advisory Board of the Swedish think tank Captus.
Teaching
On the MA Public Policy, John co-teaches the core module The Policy Process and the optional module Case Studies in Policy Decision, and teaches two optional modules, Evaluating Public Policy and Liberty, Equality and Justice: Political Theory and Public Policy.
At the undergraduate level, John lectures on the second-year module, Political Economy: Concepts and Issues.
Selected Publications
Books
Meadowcroft, J. 2011. James M. Buchanan, New York: Continuum.
Meadowcroft, J. and Pennington, M. 2007. Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy, London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
Meadowcroft, J. 2005. The Ethics of the Market, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Edited Books
Bader, R. and Meadowcroft, J. eds, 2011. The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meadowcroft, J. ed. 2008. Prohibitions, London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
Booth, P. and Meadowcroft, J. eds, 2006. The Road to Economic Freedom Volumes I and II, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Journal articles
Meadowcroft, J. 2012. Exchange, unanimity and consent: a defence of the public choice account of power, Public Choice, forthcoming.
Meadowcroft, J. 2011. Economic and Political Solutions to Social Problems: The Case of Smoking in Enclosed Public Places,
Review of Political Economy, 23, 2, 233-248.
Meadowcroft, J. 2008. Patients, Politics and Power: Government Failure and the Politicization of UK Healthcare, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 33, 427-444.
Meadowcroft, J. and Pennington, M. 2008. Bonding and Bridging: social capital and the communitarian critique of liberal markets, Review of Austrian Economics, 21/2-3, 119-33.
Meadowcroft, J. 2007. Altruism, self-interest and the morality of the private sector: an Austrian approach, Journal of Markets and Morality, 10/2, 357-73.
Meadowcroft, J. 2005. Healthcare markets, prices and coordination: the epistemic explanation of government failure and the UK National Health Service, HEC Forum: An International Journal of Healthcare Ethics, 17/3, 159-77.
Meadowcroft, J. 2003. The British National Health Service: Lessons from the “Socialist Calculation Debate”, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 28/3, 307-26.
Meadowcroft, J. 2002. The European Democratic Deficit, the Market and the Public Space: a classical liberal critique, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 15/3, 181-92.
Meadowcroft, J. 2001. Community Politics, Representation and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy, Local Government Studies, 27/3, 25-42.
Meadowcroft, J. 2001. Political Recruitment and Local Representation, Local Government Studies, 27/1, 19-36.
Book Chapters
Meadowcroft, J. 2011. 'Nozick’s critique of Rawls: distribution, entitlement, and the assumptive world of A Theory of Justice' in R. Bader and J. Meadowcroft, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meadowcroft, J. 2010. ' Markets, Myths and Morality: Which View Will Prevail?' in M. Zöller and M. Petri, eds, The Market Society and Its Morality: 250 Years of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, Bayreuth: Council on Public Policy.
Meadowcroft, J. 2010. ‘Markets, discovery and social problems’, in M. D. White, ed., Accepting the Invisible Hand, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010.
Meadowcroft, J. 2009. ‘Greed and the Market’, in A. Brassey and S. Barber, eds, Greed, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Meadowcroft, J. 2008. ‘Prostitution’ in J. Meadowcroft, ed., Prohibitions, London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
Meadowcroft, J. 2005. ‘“Locals-only” housing: The March of the New Totalitarians?’ in B. Hill et al., The New Rural Economy, London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
Meadowcroft, J. 2005. ‘A Constitution for Liberty’, in P. Booth, ed., Towards a Liberal Utopia?, London: Institute of Economic Affairs; Second edition, Continuum, 2006.
Meadowcroft, J. 2000. ‘Community Politics: Ideals, Myths and Realities’, in N. Rao, ed., Community and Representation in Western Democracies, Basingstoke: Macmillan.