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The Life and Times of F.A. Hayek – A Conversation with Bruce Caldwell

Prof. Bruce Caldwell from Duke University speaks to us about his new book Hayek: A Life

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    On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Andy Haldane. This episode is titled ‘Complexity and the Politics of Regulation’, and discusses the governance of financial risk in conditions where it’s hard to predict how agents will respond to a given situation and the possibility of error, whether by private agents or by those who regulate their behavior.

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    The Pitfalls in Using Big Data: In Conversation with Diane Coyle

    On this episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Professor Diane Coyle. This episode is titled “The data that is and that data the isn’t: the pitfalls of using big data”, and discusses the various uses and implications of big data in society, and the many pitfalls that may arise.

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    Environmental Governance

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    The Case Against the Sovereign State: In Conversation with David Thunder

    David Thunder (University of Navarra) argues that many modern political theorists, from Hobbes to Rawls, overstate the importance of state sovereignty. He envisions an alternative, polycentric form of social organisation that can support one’s freedom to flourish. Tune in for his argument in this episode of the Governance Podcast led by Billy Christmas (King’s College London).

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    Lessons From British Economic History: In Conversation with Gary Cox

    What are the origins of constrained government? How did globalisation influence politics in Victorian Britain, and are there lessons for modern times? In this episode of the Governance Podcast, Gary Cox (Stanford) sits down with Anton Howes (King’s College London) to discuss his corpus of research in economic history and political economy from 17th through the 19th centuries.

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    International Governance

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    Sovereignty and International Law: In Conversation with Carmen Pavel

    On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Carmen Pavel from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This episode is titled “Sovereignty and International Law”, which features Carmen’s recently published book with Oxford University Press Law Beyond the State.

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    Understanding and Misunderstanding Governance in Afghanistan: In Conversation with Jennifer Murtazashvili

    On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington, interviews Prof. Jennifer Murtazashvili from the University of Pittsburgh. This episode features her latest book Land, the State and War, published by Cambridge University Press. The book employs a historical narrative, extensive fieldwork and a national survey to explore how private property institutions develop, how they are maintained, and their relationship to the state and state-building within the context of Afghanistan. This episode also discusses the long running governance challenges in Afghanistan, and the recent problems associated with the actions of foreign powers.

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    Politics and Governance

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    ‘Too much’ and ‘too little’ content moderation: In Conversation with Terry Flew

    On this latest episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Professor Terry Flew. This episode is titled “‘Too much’ and ‘too little’ content moderation”, and discusses the question of content moderation on digital platforms as a case study in Foucauldian approaches to governmentality.

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    The Pitfalls in Using Big Data: In Conversation with Diane Coyle

    On this episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Professor Diane Coyle. This episode is titled “The data that is and that data the isn’t: the pitfalls of using big data”, and discusses the various uses and implications of big data in society, and the many pitfalls that may arise.

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    Post Truth Politics? In Conversation with Matt Sleat

    That we live in an era of ‘post truth politics’ has become a widespread mantra since the shock of the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Donald Trump. But Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield) believes this is a mistake: politics is no more ‘post truth’ now than it has ever been. To understand what has been happening, we need to look elsewhere. Join us on this episode of the Counterintuitive Series on the Governance Podcast.

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