Kenneth Minogue, Social Implications of a Global Economy

Text of Professor Minogue's Address

KENNETH R. MINOGUE is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and is currently Senior Research Fellow with the Social Affairs Unit in London. He was born in New Zealand, educated in Australia, and is the author of The Liberal Mind (1963), Nationalism (1967), The Concept of a University (1974), Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology (1985), and Politics: A Very Short Introduction (1995). He has edited (with A.R. de Crespigny) Contemporary Political Philosophers (1976) and (with Michael Biddis) Thatcherism: Personality and Politics (1987). In 1996, he edited Conservative Realism: New Essays. He has edited and introduced the Everyman edition of Hobbes’ Leviathan. He has written academic essays on a great range of problems in political theory, and in his academic persona he has lectured and visited universities and research institutes in the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Australia, and many other countries.

Professor Minogue has involved himself in the wider world. He has been a regular columnist for The Times and The Times Higher Education Supplement and reviews in both intellectual and academic journals. In 1976 he produced a report on the basic philosophy for restructuring the Pahlavi University of Shiraz (as it then was) in Iran. In 1986 he presented on Channel Four a six-part television program on free market economics called The New Enlightenment, repeated in 1988. A frequent commentator for radio and television on European Community issues, he was Chairman of the Bruges Group 1991-1993. He is a director of the Centre for Policy Studies, for which he has written "The Egalitarian Conceit" and "The Constitutional Mania." As Senior Research Fellow at the Social Affairs Unit in London, he is writing about politics and the media, and is also currently working for the New Zealand Business Round Table on a study of Maori-Pakeha relations in New Zealand.

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