Professor David Miller & Professor Mark Pennington, debating “Was F.A. Hayek right about social justice?”

Professor David Miller is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College. He initially read for a B.A. in Mathematics and Moral Sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge, before undertaking his B.Phil in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, and continuing on to a D.Phil in the same subject there. After spells teaching at other universities, he returned to Oxford in 1979. He has a wide variety of research interests especially now in theories of justice and equality; democratic theory; the concepts of nationality, citizenship and territory; multiculturalism and immigration; and global justice. 

Professor Mark Pennington is a Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at KCL. He read for a PhD entitled: ‘Property Rights, Public Choice & Urban Containment A Study of the British Planning System’ at the LSE, then taught at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, UoL, before joining the Department of Political Economy at KCL. His research has a particular focus on exploring problems of limited knowledge or bounded rationality and their relationship to ‘ideal’ and ‘non-ideal’ theorising in economics and political theory.