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Lecture: Rethinking Social Science: Methods, Ethics, Genres and Myths - Professor Mark Bevir
About the talk
What are the implications of a social science that views human subjects as active agents rather that passive ‘responders’ to environmental stimuli, for the concept of empirical rigour? Mark Bevir addresses these fundamental questions in a lecture entitled: Rethinking Social Science: Methods, Ethics, Genres and Myths.
About the speaker
Professor Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science at University of California Berkeley where he directs the Center for British Studies. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including in the recent past Interpretive Social Science (Oxford University Press, 2018, with Jason Blakely), and Life After God: An Encounter with Post-modernism, (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
Born and raised in London, Mark moved to Berkeley in January 2000, having worked previously at universities in India and the UK. He has held visiting fellowships in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, South Korea, UK, and USA. Mark has done policy work for governmental organizations in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as for the United Nations and its agencies.
Mark’s research interests in political theory include moral philosophy, political philosophy, and history of political thought. His methodological interests cover philosophy of social science, philosophy of history, and history of social science. His work on public policy focuses on organization theory, democratic theory, and governance.
About CSGS:
The Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (CSGS) examines how both formal and informal rules of governance operate and evolve, and how these rules facilitate or imperil peaceful, prosperous, and ecologically secure societies.
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Podcast: Liberal vs Paternalist Approaches to Economic Development Policy with Prof William Easterly
zhlédnutí 165Před 6 měsíci
About The Talk In this episode of the Governance podcast, our Director Mark Pennington speaks to Prof. William Easterly from New York University on liberal vs paternalist approaches to economic development policy. About the Speaker William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, which won the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Kno...
Podcast - Estonia and Socialist Reality with Matthew D. Mitchell
zhlédnutí 237Před 6 měsíci
About this Talk In this episode of the Governance podcast, our Director Mark Pennington interviews Dr. Matthew Mitchell on the socialist reality in Estonia’s history. This episode is part of Matthew’s co-authored publication as part of the Realities of Socialism series run by the Fraser Institute. See here: realitiesofsocialism.org/estonia The Guest Matthew D. Mitchell is a Senior Fellow in the...
Podcast - From Panmure House to State Capitalism: Adam Dixon on the relevance of Adam Smith
zhlédnutí 147Před 7 měsíci
About this Talk In this episode of the podcast, Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Adam Dixon on the contemporary relevance of the Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith. The Guest Adam D. Dixon holds the Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism at Adam Smith’s Panmure House, the last and final home of moral philosopher and father of economics Adam Smith. Professor Dixon ...
Podcast: The Life and Times of F.A. Hayek: A Conversation with Bruce Caldwell
zhlédnutí 226Před 8 měsíci
About the Talk In this episode of the podcast, Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Bruce Caldwell, one of the co-authors of this recently published book Hayek: A Life. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek’s erudi...
Lecture: Governing societies after governmentality - Prof. Mitchell Dean
zhlédnutí 405Před 8 měsíci
Prof. Mitchell Dean gave a public lecture on 27th November 2023 at King’s College London on the topic “Governing societies after governmentality order, glory and sovereignty”. About the talk This lecture recounts my (Prof. Mitchell Dean) long-term engagement with the framework of governmentality. In it, I found that the classical governmentality framework of Foucault and his immediate followers...
Lecture: Great Divergence or Great Reversal? Two Paths to the Twentieth Century - Prof Joel Mokyr
zhlédnutí 1,3KPřed 8 měsíci
Prof. Joel Mokyr gave a public lecture on the 9th November 2023 at King’s College London on the topic “Great Divergence or Great Reversal? Two Paths to the Twentieth Century”. About the talk The economic history of Eurasia over the past millennium has been characterized as a “great divergence” but in fact a “great reversal” is a better characterization. The three great Asian civilizations (Chin...
Lecture: Paternalists vs. Liberals in Economic Development (1776-2023) - Prof. William Easterly
zhlédnutí 661Před 9 měsíci
In this public lecture, held on 6th November at King’s College London, Prof. William Easterly spoke on the topic “Paternalists vs. Liberals in Economic Development (1776-2023)”. About the event The most important division in development debates is between those who choose for others what they should want versus those who let others choose for themselves what they actually do want. This division...
Podcast: Liberty and Complexity in Liberalism and Conservatism with Dr. Greg Collins
zhlédnutí 116Před 10 měsíci
About the Talk Can a moral or divine law independent of contingency accommodate the social and economic complexities of circumstance? Does a defense of custom necessarily repudiate the idea of immutable law applicable to all peoples and cultures? Is transcendent universality and spontaneous order reconcilable? This episode explores this age-old tension with reference to the intellectual origins...
Podcast: Understanding What Laws Communicate About ‘Socially Acceptable Behavior’ with Shubhangi Roy
zhlédnutí 141Před rokem
About the Talk Lawmakers, activists, and academics, often, presume that enacting a law sends a (powerful) message about what is socially desirable and acceptable. At worst, it is presumed that it will stay as ink on paper and not create any change. Therefore, it is considered as a cost-less endeavor with potential for creating great change at low costs. This has led for increase in demand for l...
Book Discussion: 'Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order' with Sir Paul Tucker
zhlédnutí 334Před rokem
About the event Can the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is entangling much of public policy with global security issues. In Global Discord, Paul Tucker lays out principles for a sustainable system of international cooperation, showing how democracies can deal with China and o...
Lecture: Four Informational Challenges Faced by Central Banks Today - Prof. Willem Buiter
zhlédnutí 212Před rokem
About the talk Central banks today face four daunting informational challenges. First, they must relearn inflation control in a world with multiple complex drivers of inflation. Second, to discharge their responsibilities and enhanced lender of last resort and market maker of last resort they must learn how to value and price systemically important financial assets when markets are disorderly. ...
Podcast: Complexity and the Politics of Regulation - A Discussion with Andrew Haldane
zhlédnutí 152Před rokem
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 ...
Podcast: ‘Too much’ and ‘too little’ Content Moderation - In Conversation with Terry Flew
zhlédnutí 110Před rokem
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 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. The Guest T...
Podcast: The Pitfalls in Using Big Data - In Conversation with Diane Coyle
zhlédnutí 226Před rokem
In 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 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. The Co...
Lecture: Liberalism in East Asia - Lessons on Development from Hong Kong and Singapore
zhlédnutí 1KPřed rokem
Lecture: Liberalism in East Asia - Lessons on Development from Hong Kong and Singapore
Lecture: The Pitfalls in Using Big Data - Prof. Diane Coyle
zhlédnutí 403Před rokem
Lecture: The Pitfalls in Using Big Data - Prof. Diane Coyle
Podcast: Politics and Expertise: In Conversation with Zeynep Pamuk
zhlédnutí 193Před rokem
Podcast: Politics and Expertise: In Conversation with Zeynep Pamuk
Lecture: The Use of Algorithms in Society - Prof. Cass Sunstein
zhlédnutí 384Před rokem
Lecture: The Use of Algorithms in Society - Prof. Cass Sunstein
Podcast: The Use of Algorithms in Society: In Conversation with Cass Sunstein
zhlédnutí 236Před rokem
Podcast: The Use of Algorithms in Society: In Conversation with Cass Sunstein
‘Why do liberal democracies feel stuck?’ - Inaugural Launch Event of Civic Future
zhlédnutí 344Před rokem
‘Why do liberal democracies feel stuck?’ - Inaugural Launch Event of Civic Future
Book Launch: 'Politics and Expertise' with Dr. Zeynep Pamuk
zhlédnutí 399Před rokem
Book Launch: 'Politics and Expertise' with Dr. Zeynep Pamuk
Lecture: Uncertainty, Asset Prices, and Economic Policy - Tamim Bayoumi
zhlédnutí 149Před rokem
Lecture: Uncertainty, Asset Prices, and Economic Policy - Tamim Bayoumi
Book Launch: 'Ideology and Mass Killing' with Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard
zhlédnutí 624Před rokem
Book Launch: 'Ideology and Mass Killing' with Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard
Podcast: UK Pensions Crisis and Central Banking - Dr Steven Klein interviews Prof Martin Weale
zhlédnutí 157Před rokem
Podcast: UK Pensions Crisis and Central Banking - Dr Steven Klein interviews Prof Martin Weale
Book Launch: Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom - Prof. Ilya Somin
zhlédnutí 185Před 2 lety
Book Launch: Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom - Prof. Ilya Somin
Podcast: Bettering Humanomics - A Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey
zhlédnutí 344Před 2 lety
Podcast: Bettering Humanomics - A Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey
Podcast: Cultures of Expertise of Economics - In conversation with Dr. Danielle Guizzo
zhlédnutí 206Před 2 lety
Podcast: Cultures of Expertise of Economics - In conversation with Dr. Danielle Guizzo
Lecture: "What do jurors know?" - Prof. Melissa Schwartzberg
zhlédnutí 339Před 2 lety
Lecture: "What do jurors know?" - Prof. Melissa Schwartzberg
Podcast: Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons - In conversation with Dr. Erwin Dekker
zhlédnutí 129Před 2 lety
Podcast: Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons - In conversation with Dr. Erwin Dekker

Komentáře

  • @patrickvernon4766
    @patrickvernon4766 Před měsícem

    “The moral imperative of growth” why is this the moral imperative? Completely unacceptable way to dismiss the will of the people.

  • @patrickvernon4766
    @patrickvernon4766 Před měsícem

    Liberal democracies don’t want to “bring” qualitative discourse or build anything. They have destroyed ethnic communities and now want new ways to control the discourse. If they wanted quality discourse just loosen up the speech restrictions in universities and online. But that is never going to happen as long as they are liberal democratic capitalist republics

  • @zeinepabetova5440
    @zeinepabetova5440 Před měsícem

    Very thankful!

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    Thank you! What a treat! Listening in my pool. Grateful

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    Thank you. I found a new channel now.

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    The masses don't even vote in primaries. They don't know.

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    Philippe Buonarroti Conspiracy of Equality I havent read it yet. Just read about him on Wikipedia. Is that our fate?

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    I say God grant me the serenity...

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    Im separated but live in the same house with rules. Im Dutch so public assistance is not in my dna & a step back. Charity care. I just study and do holistic skincare on myself. Im observing.

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    I left the social work field in 2020. During that time, I observed avatars getting remote degrees free in psychology. No internship, no work in the field, no liscense but charging for counseling. The school social workers and teachers in my state dx trans anything and not qualified. Based on social work ethics they arent. Im just observing.

    • @melissasmind2846
      @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

      That's what perplexed me. Noone questions this.

    • @melissasmind2846
      @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

      I've been in the field for decades and was a clinical supervisor. I wouldn't feel qualified dx that. Very specific.

  • @melissasmind2846
    @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

    I'm an official card carrying Ian Shapiro groupie. Rwanda class at Yale is my favorite.

    • @melissasmind2846
      @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

      In my humble, uneducated opinion. I sure do.

    • @melissasmind2846
      @melissasmind2846 Před měsícem

      I may seek refugee status out of The US. Consequences of calling out publicly the corruption. I may. Russia may be accepting a few. I'd prefer a warmer climate. Not H$LL tho.

  • @galacticambitions1277
    @galacticambitions1277 Před 2 měsíci

    A bit too much 'Mmm hmmm, mmm, yeh, yeh' from the interviewer but the content was amazing - thank you.

  • @emmanuelameyaw9735
    @emmanuelameyaw9735 Před 3 měsíci

    And why should we believe you?

  • @path2source
    @path2source Před 4 měsíci

    More than 30 minutes into his talk, Bryan is still yet to explicitly lay out his thesis and its building blocks. All he’s done so far is give out ChatGPTesque descriptions. And it turns out that Bryan never bothers to explicate the mechanism for his argument throughout the entire talk. Just surface level musings. Absolutely stunning.

  • @path2source
    @path2source Před 4 měsíci

    Comparative study on tiny city states has very little external validity.

  • @gordondeans2549
    @gordondeans2549 Před 6 měsíci

    WHAT STUPIDITY! A VIDEO WITHOUT ANY VIDEO. JUST BLINKING WHICH WILL TRIGGER EPILEPSY ATTACKS. HOW IGNORANT.

  • @andreperez8961
    @andreperez8961 Před 6 měsíci

    She is one of the great philosophers of our day and age.

  • @petersapsard3463
    @petersapsard3463 Před 6 měsíci

    Socialism is not state ownership. This is another dose of ignorance. Read Marx, he talked about the withering away of the state and abolition of the wages system. Where in the world has that happened. Lenin, in 1920 actually admitted that what had been created in Russia was not Communism or Socialism but something that should be called STATE CAPITALISM. That is from the horses mouth not its backside.

  • @apintofbeer1667
    @apintofbeer1667 Před 6 měsíci

    Privatisation of public services is a failure

  • @andreperez8961
    @andreperez8961 Před 6 měsíci

    It's good to know that our American forefathers were not blinded by greed and exploitation of their fellow Americans. Also, that explanation of artists' work in the Q&A!

  • @jimrobcoyle
    @jimrobcoyle Před 7 měsíci

    Gonzalo Lira defined Niall. P.B.U.H.

  • @vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906
    @vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906 Před 8 měsíci

    thanks!

  • @alexanderchikunov7593
    @alexanderchikunov7593 Před 8 měsíci

    I'm surprised you didn't say anything about colonialism, including Great Geographical discoveries. As we know, colonialism created a flow of colossal amounts of “valuables”, including gold, silver and much more. And playing the role of “Chief”/Ruler formed in people in metropolitan countries a complex of “greatness” ("white superiority/supremacy"). China never colonized “overseas” territories and was closed to its own. I think for the Industrial Revolution in GB particularly that was a very important factor.

  • @leonardgraham9623
    @leonardgraham9623 Před 9 měsíci

    Promo-SM

  • @flav2157
    @flav2157 Před 9 měsíci

    Excellent

  • @kh2375.2
    @kh2375.2 Před 10 měsíci

    I was about to buy her book but good thing i watched this before

  • @kh2375.2
    @kh2375.2 Před 10 měsíci

    Definitely getting a non biased pov here

  • @boymeetswrld7470
    @boymeetswrld7470 Před 10 měsíci

    Excellent, very informative.

  • @tinyleopard6741
    @tinyleopard6741 Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks, this has decent audio and is interesting.

  • @askl23
    @askl23 Před 11 měsíci

    Recognition as a master was incumbent upon building a literal masterpiece. Where are our masterpieces now?

    • @Rob-ik3fd
      @Rob-ik3fd Před 9 měsíci

      Well said- these Guilds at least had to demonstrate a tangible proficiency of what they represented, as opposed to the 'pay to play' credentialism of degrees.

  • @galacticambitions1277

    'People of Jewish extraction' - otherwise known as Jews.

  • @willchurch2813
    @willchurch2813 Před rokem

    The discussion of Hobbes condenses the thrust of "Hobbes and Republican Liberty." He's arguably the most methodologically rigorous intellectual historian and his work is really useful to me. I just tend to think he exemplifies a few problems in the field. If philosophers are almost entirely disinterested in context, his ""interventions in discursive contexts" approach tends to be almost entirely disinterested in the ideas themselves. Just to pick on two: Firstly, his insistence on the eschewal of influence, particularly philosophical influence - therefore, we cannot say Plato influenced some philosophers millennia later as that's disembodying them from the immediate context, except where we have knock-down textual support. But often philosophers make oblique references to past influence, especially in the form of aphorisms and epigraphs. Secondly, certain ideas in philosophy are perennial, and everyone would recognize them when they read them as a reiteration of Aristotle, Lucretius, Liebniz, whoever, etc. He's the best we have in the choices of Hegel, Strauss, or the completely unsystematic work of Isaiah Berlin.

  • @ozwunder69
    @ozwunder69 Před rokem

    Atlas and aunty chop chop..

  • @patricksullivan3919

    Shut up idiot.

  • @patricksullivan3919

    Who is this moron? A banker? These people are retarded. Every few years all the banks FAIL.

  • @yveslegault6825
    @yveslegault6825 Před rokem

    The word "economy" has been hijacked by finance and trade and his meaning changed to the opposite of what it used to be. Likewise, the expression "representative democracy" is an oximoron. Likewise, the expression "freedom of religion" is also an oximoron. We do actually live in a Babel tower that prevent us to understand each other.

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert1 Před rokem

    Loved both his books. Seeing Like A State. Against The Grain. We have much to learn from those people, who evaded the state, did not pay taxes and robbed from the elites.

  • @csgskcl
    @csgskcl Před rokem

    For more details of the book, please visit: csgs.kcl.ac.uk/paper/economic-liberalism-and-the-developmental-state-hong-kong-and-singapores-post-war-development/ #hongkong #singapore #asia #politics

  • @subSapiens_
    @subSapiens_ Před rokem

    Information and statistics can be interpreted to match your viewpoint, which is neoliberalism and free, open markets. The most dramatic impact of the guilds was Protectionism, protection of the local workers, against competition based on lower prices stemming from lower cost of production... i.e. China etc.. the import tariffs of the 70s and before did exactly what the guilds did, protect the local products, and the jobs that are involved.. the result of abolishing them was the destruction of industry, loss of know-how, lower imcomes, unemployment, etc etc.. And no, free markets doesn't mean lower cost for the consumer, there are under the table agreements and geographical division of markets, as well as elimination of less powerful competition, by the large few corporations that obviously rule the world. As economic history proved, open markets lead to less competition, to cartels, and oligopolies.. in this environment, innovation dies at the altar of profit... it makes more money to produce aspirins with different tastes every year, than do serious research to cure cancer...

  • @arnedomi
    @arnedomi Před rokem

    Astonishing starting argument

  • @escribidormadrid3463

    Despite its being clearly a dialogue, one gets a glimpse of what Quentin Skinner may be like as a tutor, and it's all good.

  • @marcelliott125
    @marcelliott125 Před rokem

    Promo_SM

  • @johnbriggs3210
    @johnbriggs3210 Před rokem

    Andrew Bridgen in parliament should be promoted to Prime minister not thrown out, telling the truth is indeed a revolutionary act in globalist totalitarian Britain. czcams.com/video/zTgfqJUZ9Hw/video.html

  • @johnvoyce
    @johnvoyce Před rokem

    I got bored after the first 15 minutes or so of rambling introductions and the litany of academic titles. Sorry I couldn't listen to this.

  • @glennewell2436
    @glennewell2436 Před rokem

    I have listened to many of Quentin's conversations and lectures on CZcams this is however arguably the best .... loved the Hobbesian take on theatre and socio-political life.

  • @jackhicks8935
    @jackhicks8935 Před rokem

    Crank it up!!!!

  • @nickwright9064
    @nickwright9064 Před rokem

    So absent counterfactual history (the Richard Evans view), no historian can consider the causes of any historical event. Remarkable that some schools of history strayed, conceptually, so far away from the 'but for' test for factual causation taught in every law school.

  • @ashrafjehangirqazi1497

    what about the relationship between climate heating and the rise of genocidal ideologies?

  • @aspergianheteroclite3014

    I enjoyed Anderson's talk. Very concise, illuminating and realistic. Taking into account the recent plunge in stock prices among the big tech companies, I believe Prof. Anderson has been vindicated that this wild speculation of technological utopia is based on wild exagerration. It's a pity most of these questions were so pessimistic and lacking transformative vision.

  • @zhiyinpan8321
    @zhiyinpan8321 Před rokem

    Dr. Ian Shapiro enlightened me through his courses in Yale and book and various talks.