Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Pennington

Episode 54 - Murdock and Marvel: 2001 Part 2 The year 2001 has a dark shadow over it, and there are elements of this year that are pretty rough, because as the year closed comic books were trying to make sense of and deal with 9/11 just like the rest of America.  But the start of the year brought a lot of great entertainment and for the first time in years sales held steady (mostly)   This is part 2 of the podcast. that will feature the year in Daredevil, the Spotlight story and the Takeaway for 2001.   The Year in Daredevil  Appearances:  Daredevil #14-26, Daredevil / Spider-Man #1-4, Daredevil: Yellow #1-5, Daredevil: Ninja #2-3, Marvel Knights #7-9 and #11-15, Black Widow #2-3, Spider-Man and Mysterio #1-3, X-Men #109, Big Town #4, Deadpool #52, Black Panther #31, Elektra #1, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #7-8, 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time #1 and 4, Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil #2 and Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #3.  Writing: David Mack (#14-15), Brian Michael Bendis (#16-19 and #26) Bob Gale (#20-25)  Pencils: Joe Quesada and David Ross (#14), Ross (#15 and #23-25), David Mack (#16-19), Phil Winslade (#20-22), Alex Maleev (#26)  Inks: Mark Morales (#14-15) David Mack and Morales (#15) Mack and Pond Scum (#17) Mack (#18-19), James Hodgkins (#20-22), Hodgkins and Mark Pennington (#23), Pennington (#24-25), Alex Maleev (#26)  After the wrap-up of the Parts of a hole storyline that included a trail of Kingpin before he's eventually blinded by Maya Lopez aka Echo, we get our first story from Brian Michael Bendis with David Mack moving over to art. The 4-book story, Titled Wake Up, is a fantastically told and beautifully brought to page by the creative team. It doesn't really have any action and is really only loosely about Daredevil. Interesting, right? This is, without a doubt, worth spotlighting this week – so we'll talk more about it then.  The other main story we get this year is called Playing to the Camera in which Daredevil is sued by rich philanthropist Samuel Griggs and wants to retain Nelson and Murdock (specifically Matt Murdock) as his lawyer. Matt reluctantly agrees as he knows he wasn't involved with destroying the man's greenhouse and plants and wants to figure out who's behind it. As Daredevil, he hires a lawyer and they have their days in court surrounded by a media circus.   The trial ends with 3 daredevils in the courtroom - Murdock as himself holding a video tape of himself as Daredevil earlier that morning, Peter Parker in a Daredevil costume with the defense attorney and a third Daredevil who crashes a window, admits to the property damage, offers the $50k needed to fix it and then reveals his true identity as Terrance Hillman. Confused? So is Murdock and Nelson. Apparently, Hillman decided on his own to dress up as Daredevil and crash the courtroom. He then used the reveal and announced retirement to swing fame and fortune (and help out the real Daredevil). We also learn that Hillman didn't destroy the property either and that the Ringmaster was behind everything. He was testing his ability to implant false memories in people.   One interesting side note about the first issue of the Playing with Camera storyline. A second story appears in the issue “My Brother's Keeper” written by Stan Lee and Kevin Hall with art by Gene Colan. In the short story, we see Daredevil and Spider-Man during a night out.  We did get one more book in December from Brian Michael Bendis but we'll save that for next year's discussion.  Finally In Daredevil: Yellow we get a 6-book story in which Matt is writing letters to the late Karen Page about the early days of Daredevil and the Nelson and Murdock law firm as a way to find forgiveness for everything that happened between them. The story, by Jeph Loeb, artist Tim Sale and colors by Matt Hollingsworth, is another retailing of the first handful of issues from Daredevil volume 1 that ends with the Purple Man story and Matt finding the forgiveness he needs.    This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil volume 2 #16 May 2001 - #19 August 2001 “Wake Up” Recap Why We Picked This Story Daredevil Rapid Fire Questions The Takeaway Writers are the key. Questions or comments We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at questions@comicsovertime.com or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime. ------------------ THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES  Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/.  The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts.  Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data.  Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History  DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_English-language_comics  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Comics_superhero_debuts  https://comicbookreadingorders.com/marvel/event-timeline/  https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/past-recipients/past-recipients-1990s/ 

In this episode, you'll learn: How AI and automation can boost efficiency and profitability in your MSP. Practical examples of AI applications, from sentiment analysis to multilingual support. The benefits of leveraging your PSA data to improve ticket resolution and onboarding processes.   Connect with Mark Pennington on LinkedIn by clicking here – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrpennington/ Connect with Daniel Welling on LinkedIn by clicking here – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-welling-54659715/   Connect with Adam Morris on LinkedIn by clicking here – linkedin.com/in/adamcmorris Visit The MSP Finance Team website, simply click here – https://www.mspfinanceteam.com/   We look forward to catching up with you on the next one. Stay tuned! We created It's a Numbers Game Podcast to help MSP owners learn and understand how to build and maintain a financially healthy MSP business. In this podcast series, MSP business owners like you will learn the fundamental steps, the tips and tricks, the dos and don'ts to achieve MSP financial growth. 

On this episode, we'll hear a book panel discussion on Peter Boettke's book, The Struggle for a Better World (Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2021). In his comments, Boettke provides an overview of his book, emphasizes the role that institutions play in human societies, and discusses his focus on improving the human condition by lifting up those who are least prosperous in our world. The panel is moderated by Stefanie Haeffele, and they are joined on the panel by:Emily Chamlee-Wright, President and CEO of the Institute for Humane Studies, and co-author of How We Came Back: Voices from Post-Katrina New Orleans (2015)Alain Marciano, Professor of Economics and Statistics at the University of Turin, distinguished affiliated fellow with the Hayek Program, and author of James Buchanan and Peaceful Cooperation: From Public Finance to a Theory of Collective Action (2024)Mark Pennington, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy and Director of the Center for the Study of Governance and Society at King's College London, and author of Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (2011)View Emily Chamlee-Wright's "The Four Corners of Liberalism" graphic here.Peter Boettke is a Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has published numerous books including Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2012) and F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy (2018).If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is now streaming! Subscribe today and listen to seasons one and two!Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

About the 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 is recognized as a world-leading scholar on the political economy of sovereign wealth funds, theories of state capitalism, and the intersection of markets and the state in the sustainability transition. His books include The Specter of State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024), Sovereign Wealth Funds: Between the State and Markets (Agenda, 2022), The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World (Palgrave 2022), The New Frontier Investors: How Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds, and Endowments are Changing the Business of Investment Management and Long-Term Investing (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), The New Geography of Capitalism: Firms, Finance, and Society (Oxford University Press 2014) Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power (Princeton University Press, 2013), and Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local (Oxford University Press, 2009). Trained as an economic geographer and political economist in the United States, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, Adam brings an interdisciplinary perspective to this work. Previously, Adam worked at the University of Bristol and Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where he led a large European Research Council project on sovereign wealth funds. He holds a D.Phil. in economic geography from the University of Oxford, a Diplôme (Master) de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a BA in international affairs and Spanish literature from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. 

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 erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market economy have attracted a devout following, including many at the levers of power in business and government. Critics, meanwhile, cast Hayek as the intellectual forefather of “neoliberalism” and of all the evils they associate with that pernicious doctrine. In Hayek: A Life, historians of economics Bruce Caldwell and Hansjörg Klausinger draw on never-before-seen archival and family material to produce an authoritative account of the influential economist's first five decades. This includes portrayals of his early career in Vienna; his relationships in London and Cambridge; his family disputes; and definitive accounts of the creation of The Road to Serfdom and of the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society. The Guest Bruce Caldwell is research professor of economics and the director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. Professor Caldwell's research focuses on the history of economic thought, with a specific interest in the life and works of the Nobel Laureate economist and social theorist F. A. Hayek. He is the author of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004) and since 2002 has served as the general editor of the book series The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek. In 2022 he published Mont Pelerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society as well as Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, the first of a two-volume biography that he is writing with Hansjoerg Klausinger. In 2019-2020 he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has also held research fellowships at NYU, the LSE, and Cambridge University. At Duke he is the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy, a center whose purpose is to promote research in, and the teaching of, the history of economic thought. 

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. The Guest Andy was formerly Chief Economist at the Bank of England and a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee. Among other positions, he is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Nottingham, Manchester and Exeter, Visiting Professor at King's College, London, a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Social Sciences. Andrew is Founder and President of the charity Pro Bono Economics, Vice-Chair of the charity National Numeracy and Chair of the National Numeracy Leadership Council. Andrew was the Permanent Secretary for Levelling Up at the Cabinet Office from September 2021 to March 2022 and chairs the Government's Levelling Up Advisory Council. He has authored around 200 articles and 4 books.  

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 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 Conversation ‘Big Data' fuels AI models like ChatGPT and the machine learning systems that are generating much debate about their promise – and peril – for decision-making. The impact of the technology will depend on the character of the data used. While the issue of data bias is well-understood (although not solved), less attention has been paid to other aspects such as data quality (is the data an accurate measure of the underlying object?), missing data (do we have only part of the picture?), and the meaning of data (how are the underlying concepts represented by the data constructed and interpreted)? As AI models are advancing fast enough to be deployed increasingly widely in society, there is a pressing need to reflect on the perspective on our social world created for them through the data on which they are trained and updated. The Guest Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Diane co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of progress and productivity. Her latest book is ‘Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be‘ on how economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy. Diane is also a Director of the Productivity Institute, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, an expert adviser to the National Infrastructure Commission, and Senior Independent Member of the ESRC Council. She has served in public service roles including as Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Competition Commission, of the Migration Advisory Committee and of the Natural Capital Committee. Diane was Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester until March 2018 and was awarded a CBE for her contribution to the public understanding of economics in the 2018 New Year Honours.

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 Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney. He is the author of 16 books (seven edited), 71 book chapters, 118 refereed journal articles, and 20 reports and research monographs. His books include The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015), Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), Regulating Platforms (Polity, 2021), and Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance (Springer, 2022). He was President of the International Communications Association (ICA) from 2019 to 2020 and is currently an Executive Board member of the ICA. He was elected an ICA Fellow in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), elected in 2019. He has advised companies including Facebook/Meta, Cisco Systems and the Special Broadcasting Service, and government agencies in Australia and internationally, including the Australian Communication and Media Authority and the Singapore Broadcasting Authority. He has held visiting professor roles at City University, London and George Washington University, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with Communications University of China. He currently holds two Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grants, on Trust and Distrust in News Media, and Valuing News: Aligning Interpersonal, Institutional and Societal Perspectives, and heads the International Digital Policy Observatory, funded by the ARC in partnership with the Australian Information Industries Association.

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 Cass R. Sunstein. This episode is titled "The Use of Algorithms in Society", and discusses the various ethical and moral dilemmas and implications of increasing AI us in society, and its impact on both social and economic factors.    The Guest Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom. Mr. Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), The Ethics of Influence (2015), #Republic (2017), Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide (2017), The Cost-Benefit Revolution (2018), On Freedom (2019), Conformity (2019), How Change Happens (2019), and Too Much Information (2020). He is now working on a variety of projects involving the regulatory state, “sludge” (defined to include paperwork and similar burdens), fake news, and freedom of speech.

Kamloops city councillor Katie Neustaeter sits down (at the 9:21 mark) with Kamloops Last Week in Episode 65, the first of eight straight instalments dedicated to interviewing each member of the council that was sworn in on Nov. 1 at TRU. Head coach Mark Pennington and hometown hero Ainsley Grether also hop in (27:35) to discuss the TRU WolfPack women’s soccer team’s cinderella run, which continues this weekend with the Canada West Final Four in Vancouver. Neustaeter delves into a plethora of topics: her role in mending fences on council if required; her opinion on a core review of city staffing and management; the influence of her father, former BC Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger, on her politics; her faith and how it can influence her work on council; her take on Glenn Hilke speaking up at city council inauguration; shelters and their locations/CMHA/neighbourhood group input; and her political aspirations. Grether and Pennington look back on the magic of the Canada West season thus far and pledge to perform a duet on KLW if the WolfPack earn a medal this weekend in Vancouver. Magic Mike Miltimore reviews (2:21) his experience with bidets. Bidet-believer Chris Foulds says North Americans are living in the Lavatory Stone Age. A whirlwind search for Wild Pumpkins (5:21) takes the KLW crew to the Tranquille Sanitorium, with stops at Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Nu Leaf Produce Market and McDonald’s. We are inching closer to 300 subscribers. Join the #LastWeekClique by subscribing on YouTube and following along on your favourite podcast provider. We’ll see you Last Week.

De seneste par år Jonas Herby været kraftigt involveret i nedlukningsdebatten. Var nedlukninger det rigtige svar på pandemien, eller havde det været klogere at overlade en større del af pandemihåndteringen til borgerne? Jonas' holdning er, at det havde været bedre at droppe nedlukningerne og i stedet lade borgerne selv definere, hvad ikke-essentielle aktiviteter er for dem. Men sådan gik det ikke, og selv i dag – efter pandemien er overstået – er mange uenige med Jonas.     Men ville den berømte Nobelpris-vindende økonom, F. A. Hayek, have været enig med Jonas? Det er emnet i dagens episode af Regelstaten, hvor Mark Pennington, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy ved King's College i London, gæster Regelstaten.   Links: Mark Penningtons paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-020-00522-9 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-020-00522-9) 

Hasbro's G.I.Joe toyline exploded in the 80s with a popular cartoon show and Designer Mark Pennington worked on over 75 of the original 3 3/4 inch toyline! If you love G.I.Joe this is a must listen!

Order of Battle Podcast special episode Operation Recall - Clanker and Tank A sat down with concept creator Bobby, 12yo, to discuss their concept designs. As you know, A did SHHHH, a ninja with a prosthetic (maybe robotic) leg. Bobby came up with Clanker, a survivalist who collects robot parts after battles to repurpose as armor and weapons! Clanker's combat companion is a genetically modified and armored Galapagos Tortoise named Tank.   These are the two youngest members of the Operation: Recall family with two fun and inspiring designs. Both have the pleasure of being professionally designed by the legendary Mark Pennington!  Bobby's Clanker and Tank do not officially unlock until the funding reaches 240K, so back Operation Recall today!  Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3djoes/operation-recall-legendary-creators-back-on-active-duty Website: www.orderofbattlepod.com Email: orderofbattlepod@gmail.com Twitter: @orderofbattlepd Instagram: @orderofbattlepod #gijoe

This episode is the audio for a YouTube TeamStream that initially ran on July 6, 2022.  TeamStreams run every Friday at 9 pm on the WOJM YouTube channel, barring unforeseen circumstances or holidays.  Please take a moment and help us out — even if you don't watch us there, subscribe to our YouTube channel today! In this Special Edition, the WOJM boys are back at it just hours after signing off from Special Edition 76 and welcome former co-host and 3DJoes founder Carson Mataxis to the show!  They're live right at the start of Carson's new Operation: Recall Kickstarter, which looks to present new 3.75" o-ring action figures designed by Hasbro's classic team from the 1980s and 1990s, and created by fans!  That's right, these are fan-created characters brought to life by Ron Rudat, Mark Pennington, Doug Hart, Kirk Bozigian, Bill Merklein, and Larry Hama!  Give us a listen, go check out their Kickstarter, and PLEDGE TODAY! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3djoes/operation-recall-legendary-creators-back-on-active-duty You can watch this episode at: https://youtu.be/BKBJNPqwt1Y

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Dr. Erwin Dekker from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This episode is titled “Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons”, which features Erwin's recently co-edited volume with Cambridge University Press, Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons. The Guest Dr. Erwin Dekker is senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has recently published Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (2021) and The Viennese Students of Civilization (2016), as well as the edited volume Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons (2021) all with Cambridge University Press. He has published in professional journals regarding history of economics, methodology of economics, cultural economics and economic sociology. He is currently working on a history of the intellectual descendants of the German Historical School as well as a project on markets at the margins of society, so-called grey zones. He has previously worked as assistant professor of cultural economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Panel by Panel is back, and this time the randomizer has selected a panel from Peter Milligan's run on Shade the Changing-Man (issue 13 to be exact), with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Pennington. Siskoid and his guest Gareth Madeley sit down across the Atlantic from one another and discuss it, proto-Vertigo and the British invasion in all their fishy details! A clean look at the image in the Panel by Panel Supplemental. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts Like our FACEBOOK page - https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcasts Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fwpodcasts Subscribe via Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/panel-by-panel/id1580551162 or Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/7zNQNUV6HwHCd5NUKzxvyu Leave us a comment, we'll read it between the panels!

Zurück aus der Pause mit dem zweiten Teil von Reflection, dem Gast-Arc von Grant Morrison und Greg Capullo (mit Mark Pennington). Chris und Thorsten sind sich recht einig, was zu einer diesmal etwas kürzeren Episode von SPAWN-O-RAMA führt. SPAWN #16 "Reflections Part 2" story GRANT MORRISON pencils GREG CAPULLO inks MARK PENNINGTON copy editor & letterer TOM ORZECHOWSKI color STEVE OLIFF and OLYOPTICS in the memory of: ROSS ANDRU

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.

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Will Davies from Goldsmiths, University of London. This episode is titled “How Neo-Liberal are Contemporary Modes of Governance?”

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Michael Hulme from Cambridge University. This episode is titled “Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change”, where he suggests looking at climate change challenges as predicaments for human societies to cope with.

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.

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington, interviews Dr Mikayla Novak from the Australian National University. This episode features her latest book Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy, which explores social movement activities and outcomes through the lens of liberal political economy. Using historical and contemporary case studies, this book illuminates how social movements fluidly organise in often repressive environments to achieve freedom, equality, and dignity.     The Guest   Dr Mikayla Novak is a doctoral student in sociology at The Australian National University. Her research interests are wide-ranging, and include: classical sociology; economic and fiscal sociology; inequality and social stratification; network theory and analysis; rational-choice sociology; social movement studies; and social theory.   Mikayla has extensively written on matters of social thought and policy, invariably attuned to the complex intersections between sociological, economic and political phenomena. In 2018 her first book, Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective, was published by Palgrave   Prior to her transition into academic sociology, Mikayla was an economist with a doctorate in economics awarded at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and a First Class Honours economics degree at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).

On this week's episode of the Counterintuitive Series on the Governance Podcast, Professor Mark Pennington (King's College London) argues that if not quite everything, then a great many things, ought to be legally for sale. From kidneys, to drugs, to sex, to votes, how much ought the market be allowed to freely trade in?

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!   The Order of Battle Podcast episode 42 is here!   Where to start? Where to end? Joe Fest 2021 is done and dusted but we're still feeling high! Joel met up with Jason and A in Augusta Georgia for Joe Fest (4th) 2021. Rynoe joined the boys along with 5000+ other GI Joe fans. The show was Friday 25 June through Sunday 27 June, but we were there communing with our tribe Thursday through Monday, for an extra bit of refueling the old life systems.  It's not the traditional family vacation, but being with your tribe sharing your hunts, breaking bread, clinking glasses, laughing and embellishing stories is what keeps the fires burning if you're a toy and comics collector.  Here are some amazing creative people and things you should check out:  Call Sign Longbow : https://cslongbow.com/ James Duffy's DioDisplays : https://www.diodisplay.com/ James Kavanaugh Jr's RAHC Guides : https://www.rahcguide.com/ Spero Toys Animal Warriors of the Kingdom : https://sperotoys.com/ Complex Base Building System : http://www.complexbases.com/ After Action Report : https://afteractionreport.net/ Jason Sobol : http://jasonsobolart.com/ Mark Pennington : https://www.3djoes.com/mark-pennington.html Ron Rudat : https://www.3djoes.com/ron-rudat.html Alex Sanchez : https://www.facebook.com/ironhed/ Join our conversation and start looking at the next shows in your area, region, or get in a car/plane and come out to one you've always heard about. The Order of Battle's next show is Kentuckiana in Louisville Kentucky at the end of July. Where's yours?  Joe Fest: www.joefestusa.com Kentuckiana: www.kygijoe.com Website: www.orderofbattlepod.com Email: orderofbattlepod@gmail.com Twitter: @orderofbattlepd Instagram: @orderofbattlepod #gijoe

In the latest issue of the Governance podcast Mark Pennington interviews Prakash Kashwan of the University of Connecticut. The conversation considers the political economy foundations of the Bloomington school with in-depth discussion on the role of power, institutions, and incentives in the analysis of common pool resource problems. 

We’re back with another great update from JoeFest, a Real Augusta Toy Show! None other than our community’s own Mark Pennington is going to be a guest at JoeFest this June! Mark is a previous Hasbro designer having worked on the GI Joe toy line in the late 80’s. If you aren’t sure who Mark designed, grab whatever your favorite figure was in 88 and 89 and chances are, he’s your guy! Mark’s character designs started showing up in 1987 and he was prolific through 1990. Personally some of my favorites are Hit & Run, Iron Grenadier, v2 Destro, and Hydro-Viper. But honestly, that’s barely scratching the surface! And I’m not even bringing up everything he’s done outside of GI Joe...Bring your comics and file cards to be signed and let him know how much we love his era of GI Joe. I’m hoping he brought some original art and I’ll be begging him to do a piece for me. Who would I ask him to do? Secto-Viper? Techno-Viper? Scoop? V2 Rock N Roll?  Oh no… this is too hard. Glad I have 4 weeks to figure it out.Mark is on Instagram @markpenningtonart, he’s on Facebook and mpennington.faso.com

The Green Market's Host, Luke Warren, talks with Dr Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and Mark Pennington, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Kings College London, on the modern-day and historical impacts of centrally planned regimes and command economies on the environment. Hosted by Luke Warren Produced by Henry Lloyd Created by the British Conservation Alliance, in association with the Austrian Economics Center and Cedargold

Mark Pennington of Regenaterra / Living Fields Collective, joins us on the HempList this week. Hosted By Chase Nobles, Founder of Kush.com. Living Fields Collective helps farms in a wide range of ways including consultations, sourcing, retail sales, and they even have their own water soluble products with some great science behind it.. Subscribe for more interviews each week, also available on Spotify and podcast apps. Learn more and create your account now at Kush.com for B2B transactions or shop.kush.com for online orders.

 Part One: Running Time:   (15:33) Jade Springart talks to Mike Staff about starting as an intern at WRIF and working her way into the programing and on air staffs. Including working at the front desk, promotions, production and board operator duties along the way.    Part Two: Running Time:   (29:45) In 2015 Jade became the Music Director and learned under award winning programmer Mark Pennington. And she talks about the current state of the rock & roll radio business. Part Three: Running Time:   (44:24) Jade addresses the biter sweet reality of taking over the mid-day slot on the Riff and being the stations Digital Program Director. Plus her thoughts on some of the legends who came before her including Ken Calvert, Steve Kostan and Karen Savelly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us on this episode of the governance podcast between Simon Kaye and Mark Pennington for a conversation on the impact of Elinor Ostrom's work on public policy. Simon Kaye discusses his latest report for the New Local on how the ideas of self-governance and community power can transform public services in the UK. Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify Subscribe to the Governance Podcast on iTunes and Spotify today and get all our latest episodes directly in your pocket. Follow Us For more information about our upcoming podcasts and events, follow us on facebook, twitter or instagram (@csgskcl). Read the Report Think Big, Act Small: Elinor Ostrom's Radical Vision for Community Power The Guest Having been awarded a PhD in democratic theory from the Department of Political Economy at King's College London in 2015, Simon Kaye has worked as a researcher and educator in academia and think tanks, with roles at UCL's Constitution Unit, The Hansard Society, Queen Mary, and King's College London. His last role was as Research Director at the Project for Modern Democracy, running projects on Whitehall reform and the rebalancing of UK economic policy.   Simon has written and spoken on a diversity of subjects, including democracy and voting systems, localism and self-governance, political economy, historical methods, constitutions, conspiracy theories, and post-truth. He has published work in venues including History and Theory, Critical Review, European Political Science, and The Fabian Society. He has also penned articles for popular publications such as The Independent, Politics.co.uk, CityMetric, and CapX. He has contributed to several podcasts to talk about his research, presented at festivals and international conferences, participated in public lectures and panel debates, won several competitive academic fellowships, and appeared on BBC News as a political commentator.  Simon's research at New Local is focused around the Community Paradigm, drawing on his expertise in democracy and political economy. His major projects include work on mutual aid groups, the new working practices and relationships that emerged during the 2020 pandemic, and the landmark research of Nobel Prize-winner Elinor Ostrom into governance systems and community management of common resources. New Local's Ostrom project is a direct development of the original Community Paradigm and forms the intellectual grounding for much of our work on public service reform and the need for more autonomous and empowered communities.   Skip Ahead 00:26: the New Local have recently produced a very interesting policy report which tries to apply some of the ideas of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom to look at aspects of a possible policy reform agenda in the UK and perhaps other countries. Those of you who follow our podcast will know that the Ostrom's work is quite important at our Centre because of their focus on the relationship between formal and informal institutions of governance. So Simon, welcome to the podcast. I wonder if we could start off by you giving a bit of background on what you do at New Local. 02:25: You've produced with New Local what I think is an excellent report on Ostrom. I wonder if you could say more about why and how the New Local has become aware of the Ostroms' work? 06:40: If we think about some of the ideas in the report, as part of this community paradigm, you are pushing an agenda which is emphasizing this idea of decentralisation, of communities taking control of how public services are delivered, or assets are managed—the idea of communities having the space to craft their own hybrids between communities, markets and states. What would you say to the idea that in the UK people have been arguing for decentralisation for many years, there's lots of complaints in the British government about over-centralisation, and yet the decentralisation agenda never really seems to take root. What do you think it is about the Ostrom agenda that can possibly make that happen? 11:08: So you would say, for example, that the Ostrom agenda, in its capacity to appeal to people across the political spectrum, is different from --what we heard in the late 1990s and early 2000s during the Tony Blair premiership in Britain, was a lot of talk about stakeholderism and participation—and this Ostrom agenda has aspects of that but also appeals across political groupings in a way that perhaps that agenda didn't. 12:46: Could you say a little bit about what you think she means by the phrase “beyond markets and states”? 18:26: So it's really an argument there that there is no fixed boundary about what kind of institutional arrangement is appropriate for particular kinds of goods—that that is constantly moving and varying according to local circumstances. 20:11: That leads me to what I think is a strange paradox about British politics, which is that on the one hand we do get people complaining (and we've seen this in the context of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic) that there is too much centralisation and not enough scope for community decision-making. But at the same time, the minute you start to get local variety, you have people complaining that they don't like the fact that there are different outcomes in different places—you often get the phrase “the post-code lottery” that people want there to be a uniformity of provision of outcome while the localism agenda is pointing to something else. How do you square that circle if you're trying to sell this idea? 23:30: If I'm understanding your argument, you're saying there needs to be some kind of levelling mechanism in that you need some kind of minimum standard which everyone as a citizen is entitled to, but then over and above that, that's the space where local control should come into play. What would be your view on the levelling mechanism being something like a universal basic income? 26:34: Speaking of that, the government here is talking about a “levelling up” agenda. Is there any way in which what you're talking about can inform what that might look like? Can you give some examples of cases where community control can facilitate levelling up? 31:30: I remember very well there's a distinction Ostrom draws between what she calls a facilitator state and a controller state.     33:55: I was going to say, if you're starting from a position where a state – whether at the local or national level – is actually responsible for managing assets or resources, there's no way it can just disappear. At the very least it needs a mechanism for transferring authority, however much authority we're talking about. This is certainly not a laissez-faire approach. Let's move on to discuss the pandemic: arguably a problem which requires a centralised response to a large scale collective action problem. How do you think the relationship between the centre and localities plays out in the pandemic? 39:23: This feeds back to an earlier dilemma I was describing, which is: isn't part of the reason central government has followed such a top down approach that there has been a popular demand for centralised action? 44:16: So you don't feel that what's happened with the pandemic is that there is a permanent setback to the ideas of decentralisation—you think this is actually an opportunity to show what can be achieved by thinking in a different way.

Spawn #25 & Image Zero #0 & Image X-Month & Operation: Urban Storm & Shadowhawk: Out of the Shadows & The Savage Dragon: Baptism of FireListener Discretion AdvisedSpawn #25by Todd McFarlane & Marc Silvestri & Matt Banning & Billy Tan“Tremors”Dedicated To: The Spirit of IndependenceAs for Joe Sakic, three days from now, his body will be found under the George Washington Bridge, with his hands and feet viciously severed. Decapitated. Even his genitals will be missing. The police will conduct a full investigation, but in the absence of anything identifiable about the body, will have to close the case of John Doe 1994-714. Such is the life of a trusted employee of Vito Gravano.One of the bums he knows says our hero usually hangs out in the same four block radius. I’ve mapped it out already, sir.God, no. Vito thinks I’M Terry. Image Zero #0by Rob Liefeld & Art Thibert; Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Scott Williams; Todd McFarlane & Dan Panosian; Erik Larsen; Marc Silvestri; Jim Valentino & Christopher Ivy; and Whilce PortacioExtra-Image: Shadowhawk (1992)by Jim ValentinoOperation: Urban Stormfeaturing Shadowhawk, Savage Dragon, & StormwatchShadowhawk #0 (1994)by Rob Liefeld & Karl Alstaetter & Robert NaptonCyberforce #8 (1994)by Eric Silvestri & Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington & John ClearyYoungblood #9 (1994)by Jim Valentino & Dan FragaSavage Dragon #13 (1994)by Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Richard Bennett & Alex Garner & Dan Panosian & Scott WilliamsWildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #14 (1994)by Erik LarsenStupid #1 (1993)by Hilary BartaSplitting Image #1-2 (1993)by Don SimpsonThe Savage Dragon vs. The Savage Megaton Man #1 (1993)by Erik Larsen & Don Simpson Image is EverythingEpisode Art Gallery 1: Spawn/Cyberforce/ShadowhawkEpisode Art Gallery 2: Wildstorm/Savage Dragon/YoungbloodSpawning GroundTwitterFacebooktumblrrolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com#SpawnometerSpawnometer on BlogspotRolled Spine Podcasts on WordPress

Guana Batz special with Stuart Osborne in conversation with David Eastaugh The original group members were Pip Hancox (vocals), Stuart Osborne (guitar), Dave "Diddle" Turner (drums) and Mick Wigfall (upright bass). Wigfall was removed by Osborne early on, who preferred a bass guitar player for the band. Mick White soon joined the band as bass guitarist. However, by 1984, the Guana Batz decided to again feature an upright bassist, and replaced White with Sam Sardi. Turner quit the band in May 1987, the hectic touring schedule having grown too much for him, and opted to devote his time to his girlfriend and his construction job. He was replaced by former Get Smart bass player, Jonny Bowler. When Sardi left the band, Bowler switched to upright bass, and John Buck joined the band on drums. Mark Pennington of the Caravans played upright bass for the band after Sam Sardi left and prior to Johnny Bowler switching to bass. Hancox's Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Pig Dog, was humorously referred to as the band's "fifth member." After being hit by a car, he was replaced by Hancox's new dog, Muttley, who would be featured on four Guana Batz album covers. Although Muttley has died, he reportedly lived to an old age. The band broke up in 1990, but reunited in 1996. They are still touring today. Osborne also plays with The Unknowns. Buck still lives in London; Hancox and Bowler have relocated to San Diego, California and they have occasionally performed in the southern California area with ex-Stray Cats members under the moniker the Guana Cats.

Mark Pennington explores the relationship between freedom, regulation, and public policy. Adopting a “non-ideal” approach, he argues that there is no necessary connection between different conceptions of liberty and any particular sort of regulatory/public policy framework. Both negative and positive conceptions of freedom require a role for “regulation,” but whether this “regulation” arises from public policy or is best left to emerge through private agency in a competitive environment is a matter that can only be resolved by theoretical speculation and empirical inquiry.

Spawn #20 & Daring Escapes #1-4 & Spawn/Batman [“Red Scare”] & Batman/Spawn: War DevilListener Discretion Advised Spawn #20by Tom Orzechowski & Andrew Grossberg and Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington & Todd McFarlane“Showtime” Part 2Dedicated To: Roy Thomas…Yousef Volokhov, a visiting scientist from the East-West Atomic Warfare, Science and Applications Conference, is still unaccounted for…Percival Issacsen-Smythe, please… Fitzgerald, Terence D., A5A-923777… Yo Percy. I just got the bejeesus kicked out of me. Nah, some match-crisp dude helped me out.I had so much to learn from you, Houdini– if you really were Houdini. Daring Escapes #1-4 (1998)by Tom Orzechowski & Andy Grossberg and Alan Weiss & Jim Fern & Art Nichols Spawn-Batman (1994)by by Frank Miller & Todd McFarlaneAmong the dregs of humanity, Batman listens– for any scant clue… now and then he hears legends of one of their own named “Al”– a bum possessed with magical powers. Nonsense, he thinks.It’s not just a story. It was Batman. And if he’s working for Nadia Vladova– or Margaret Love, as she’s calling herself– then he’s not the hero everybody says he is… Batman-Spawn: War Devil (1994)by Doug Moench & Chuck Dixon & Alan Grant and Klaus Janson Image is EverythingEpisode Art GalleryPromotional MaterialThe Magic Detective Podcast: Dean Carnegie covers all magic history, especially stories about Houdini, and many lesser known magicians.The Overlooked Dark Knight: Hosted by Andrew Leyland and Michael Bailey, their mandate is to shine a light on Batman stories that hardly anyone talks about and stick mainly with the Bronze Age of the Caped Crusader.Batrankings: Join your hosts, Ben Creighton and Kenny Windorski, as they use unimpeachable SCIENCE to create an authoritative ranking of episodes of Batman: The Animated Series.Spawning GroundTwitterFacebooktumblrrolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com#SpawnometerSpawnometer on BlogspotRolled Spine Podcasts on WordPress

 Spawn #19 & WildC.A.T.s Trilogy & WildC.A.T.s SpecialListener Discretion AdvisedSpawn #19by Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington and Tom Orzechowski & Andrew Grossberg"Showtime" Part 1Dedicated To: Chris ClaremontThis atomic event may tell us something about the effects of mundane high-energy particle bombardment on infernal matter.Elsewhen/where: The place is known as The Overlap. It is a reality that intersects all planes of existence. It is the birthplace of what's called magic.There's no way I'm going to believe you're Harry Houdini... Aren't you dead or something? WildC.A.T.s Trilogy #1-3 (1993)by Jae Lee and Brandon Choi & Dafydd WynWildC.A.T.S Special #1 (1993)by Travis Charest and Steve Gerber with various...I suppose Hightower's entitled to some braggin' rights this time. He and that Coda, Sister Artemis, got the drop on us but good. I guess that's the worst part for me, The Grifter, bein' suckered by my old friend, Lonely, into a trap, only to be used as bait to lure the other WildC.A.T.s.Bring you back to Themiscrya and lead a revolt against me, Andromache, the ruling Majestrix of The Coda!The most brutal war on the planet-- at the moment-- is the one between Yurgovia and Kasmia in Eastern Europe. The Kasmians are poorly organized, poorly armed-- all but defenseless against the armies of the Yurgovian Baroness Destine. Image is EverythingEpisode Art GalleryPromotional MaterialThe Professor Frenzy Show: Chris and Gerry will recommend and discuss the best in Indie and Small Publisher comics.Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace: A podcast that explores the history of Wonder Woman on page and screen.Zero Hour Strikes!: Co-hosts Siskoid and Bass cover the whole of DC Comics' Zero Hour 1994 crossover event! Spawning GroundTwitterFacebooktumblrrolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com#SpawnometerSpawnometer on BlogspotRolled Spine Podcasts on Wordpress

What can social scientists tell us about the world? How do psychology and history enrich economics? In this episode of the Governance Podcast, Jon Elster sits down with Mark Pennington to discuss the essential tasks and limitations of social science. Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify Subscribe to the Governance Podcast on iTunes and Spotify today and get all our latest episodes directly in your pocket. Follow Us For more information about our upcoming podcasts and events, follow us on facebook or twitter (@csgskcl). The Guest Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences at Columbia University. Before coming to Columbia, he taught in Paris, Oslo and Chicago. His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens (1979), Sour Grapes (1983), Making Sense of Marx (1985), The Cement of Society (1989), Solomonic Judgements (1989), Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (1989), Local Justice (1992) and Political Psychology (1993). His research interests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice and the history of social thought (Marx and Tocqueville). He is currently working on a comparative study of constitution-making processes from the Federal Convention to the present and on a study of retroactive justice in countries that have recently emerged from authoritarian or totalitarian rule. Research interests include Theory of Rational Choice and the Theory of Distributive Justice. Skip Ahead 0:57: You're giving a talk at our Centre called ‘Emotions in History.' Can you explain the argument? 3:54: A lot of your work in the past has been engaged with rational choice models or economic models applied to various social phenomena in one form or another. You're now mentioning the role of psychology. What role should psychology play in relation to the kind of rationality-oriented work you've done in the past? 6:04: So you're saying that common sense rationality can play a role in understanding political institutions or economic institutions, or individual behaviour within them? 7:38: You say that about some of the Chicago-school understandings of institutions which imply that the institutions that are chosen are efficient in some sense—because if they weren't, rational agents would change them. Then it's hard to account for any sort of institutional change because equilibrium is built into the model. 8:50: If we don't explain the origin of institutions through a rational choice model, or at least if that model has quite serious limitations, is there any way in which a model that focuses on the psychological dimension or the emotional dimension provides a better explanation? 10:38: Would your view of institutions be more along the kind of model that recognizes that institutions are often the products of accidents that arise from conjunctions of all kinds of eventualities that really don't necessarily have more universal implications? 11:32: What can we say—or can we say anything—about whether certain kinds of institutions have beneficial properties relative to other kinds of institutions? 13:54: If we go back to this role of emotion: if emotion is an important factor in shaping institutions, the way they're formed and perhaps even the way they persist, that strikes me to imply that… people, because of emotion, create certain institutional structures that could be inefficient or malfunction in various ways… 16:49: What I was wondering was whether you were working with a model where emotional choice influences the way in which institutions are originally created, but then within that set of rules, is that the level at which a more rational choice type model kicks in? Or is it emotions all the way down? 18:26: I want to come to some of what you've written on the role of prediction within social science… but what I take from what you've just said there about the importance of specific cases and not generalizing too much is that you would be against the idea that even if we recognize the role of emotions in forming institutions, we can have a notion of institutional design to deal with the effects of emotional decision making … 21:52: Would it be fair to say that we might not know necessarily what are good decisions – certainly not in some optimizing sense, but can we say about what might be bad decisions? 23:23: So the next question I wanted to ask you is, given the role of indeterminacy, can you say a bit more about what you think are the excessive ambitions of contemporary social science? This is a theme that you've developed in your recent work: a lot of social science is about prediction… much of what you're saying is pushing back against that. 26:50: If prediction is limited, can we nevertheless have a model of social science which is based on understanding in very context-specific circumstances? 28:38: I think that one of the interesting things to think about regarding uncertainty is that there are different views within political economy about this. As I understand, Keynes' view was that uncertainty was very much with us and that the role of statecraft is to manage that uncertainty in a creative way… 30:25: Can we speak a little more about the importance of history? One of the pieces that some of our students read in one of our courses on political economy has some criticisms that you made of the analytic narrative model in political economy—and that's often an attempt to use rational choice type models to understand particular historical episodes. And the argument you made there, as I understand it, is that they are sort of retrofit models. People are picking the history to fit the rational choice type explanation. 34:46: So that sounds very much to be part of what I take of what you're saying here, which is that there needs to be a lot more humility from various analysts about what they claim for their particular models, given the nature of the subject matter. 36:28: One of the authors we're studying at our research centre is Elinor Ostrom and her account of common pool resource management. She is famous for challenging some of the implications that came from one simple model of rational choice: the idea that there is a commons problem—that whenever you don't have ownership rights of some kind, you have a tragedy of the commons. 40:23: Earlier, you were reflecting on areas where you think you've been wrong over what's been a very distinguished career… 42:41: One of the areas where you've applied this notion is giving micro-foundations to Marxist-style explanations. You're one of the influencers behind the analytical Marxist movement. Did that turn out to be a fruitful research paradigm or not? 43:48: In what sense does the early part of Marx remain with us? What's the residual power of the insight? 46:28: Are there any other areas you'd like to talk about where you think what you were writing about in the past wasn't right? 47:40: What are you working on at the moment?

This week we talk UEFA Champions League, MLS, VAR, and have a chat with new Head Coach of Thompson River University Wolfpack women’s soccer team Mark Pennington about the growth in women’s football as well as grassroots football in BC.

“Smith's answer is that human beings have a basic capacity to observe, to be aware of, and in due course to be moved by the feeling of others. He calls that sympathy.” How did Adam Smith's insights into morality and sociology transform the modern world? Do they offer answers to the deepest political challenges of the twenty-first century? Jesse Norman MP discusses his new book on Smith with Mark Pennington on the Governance Podcast. Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify Subscribe to the Governance Podcast on iTunes and Spotify today and get all our latest episodes directly in your pocket. Follow Us For more information about our upcoming podcasts and events, follow us on facebook or twitter (@csgskcl). The Guest Jesse Norman MP was appointed Minister of State for the Department for Transport on 12 November 2018. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Transport from June 2017 to 9 November 2018. He was elected as the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire in May 2010. Before entering politics Jesse was a Director at Barclays, researched and taught philosophy at University College London, and ran a charitable project in Communist Eastern Europe. His books and pamphlets include ‘The achievement of Michael Oakeshott', ‘After Euclid', ‘Compassionate conservatism' and ‘The big society'. His book ‘Edmund Burke: politician, philosopher, prophet' was listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Political Book Awards and the George Orwell Prize. He has also written regularly for the national press.   Skip Ahead 00:38: Why write a book about Adam Smith, and why now? 3:05: What is Smith's view of human nature, and the role of empathy within it? 9:17: If you look at the Theory of Moral Sentiments, there's the idea that moral order doesn't need to come from a legislator [or from God] – it is a bottom-up account of how rules are developed. 12:15: One thing critics say about Smith is that he has a purely descriptive account of morality—it's describing how people act in ways to seek others' praise, but that doesn't address whether the action itself is actually worthy of praise. 15:17: In the Smithian account of morals, how do morals change? If what others perceive I should do is not what I think I should do, how do I challenge that public view? 18:40: I think The Theory of Moral Sentiments can help us understand things like celebrity culture, or what goes on in social media. People looking for ‘likes' on Facebook is very much praise and blame. But there's a tension here: this is how moral norms are enforced, but Smith also talks about the “man within the breast,” the person who knows what is really praiseworthy. 21:35: In my view, what the invisible hand is referring to is a kind of social process, it's an understanding that there are emergent properties in society, when people interact and then something emerges which is more than the sum of its parts and which wasn't anticipated by its participants… it's the unintended consequences of spontaneous order. 24:45: If you have a theory of the invisible hand, you might also have theories of how the invisible hand can break down. Economists have theories of market failure, but does Smith have a theory of moral failure? 27:45: When we're talking about morality, yes we can point to celebrity culture as being a moral market failure, but what's the alternative? Would the Smithian account favour a legislative response? 31:10: You're very good at explaining that Smith is, in some ways, an egalitarian… the challenge is, and I think this is a problem that no one's cracked—what do we do when people who acquire economic power then try to use the state to limit competition? 37:00: We know that financial markets have important information asymmetries… that's a standard argument some people use to argue for regulation…. But equally, we know that regulation can be captured by big players. To solve a market failure, you end up with a governance failure. 40:28: One of the things I take from Smith is a scepticism about politicians… how do we constrain politicians?  

Coaches Lee Bailey and Mark Pennington discuss how All Stars Cricket has succeeded at Crossflatts Cricket Club.

Your hosts Eric Balkman and David A. Gerczak broadcast the 2018 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) Pros Vs. Joes League #2 The Upside Down League. Forming the Pros tonight are Ryan Santos from Dynasty Football Factory, Rotoworld's Evan Silva, Jason Rock Phelps from Sports Injury Predictor, Fantasy Alarm's Howard Bender, Graham Barfield from Fantasy Guru and the FNTSY Sports Network's Jake Ciely, a former overall champion of the competition. Those Pros will battle tonight's Joes field of FFPC players Joe Stutesman, Mark Pennington, Eric Danowski, Mike Maloney, former overall PVJ champs Joe and Tom Delzenero and John Kleinfelder and Dave Byer. Catch the live draft board at YouTube.com/HighStakesFantasyFootball. Plus, Balky and Dave answer your calls, emails, tweets and more all on The High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour!

Paul is joined by special guest Shagg Matthews of the Fire and Water Podcast Network to discuss DC's event of 1992, Eclipso: The Darkness Within! How will the scope, big deals, legacy, and eventyness of this story compare against other events? The fight to save Earth from the 'eclipsed', heroes gone bad - and the vengeance demon Eclipso - was brought to us by the creative team of Keith Giffen, Robert Loren Fleming, Bart Sears, Randy Elliot, Mark Pennington, Raymond Kryssing, and Tom McCraw!  Get in touch and lets us know your thoughts on this ep and Eclipso! You can send your comments to DCOCDcast@gmail.com , or on Twitter @DCOCDcast  - and thanks for tuning in!

Seth Resler interviews Mark Pennington, Program Director of WRIF Detroit at the 2017 Worldwide Radio Summit.

Image-O-Rama: Mage: The Hero Denied #0 by Matt Wagner and Brennan Wagner, The Divided States of Hysteria #2 by Howard Chaykin, Jesus Aburtov, and Ken Bruzenak, Paklis by Dustin Weaver, and Seven to Eternity #6 and #7 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, James Harren, and Matt Hollingsworth, Super Sons by Peter J. Tomasi, Jorge Jimenez, Alisson Borges, Alejandro Sanchez, and HI-FI, Valiant-O-Rama: X-O Manowar #4 by Matt Kindt, Doug Braithwaite, and Diego Rodriguez, Secret Weapons #1 by Eric Heisserer, Rual Allen, and Patricia Martin, Rai: The Histoy of the Valiant Universe #1 by Rafer Roberts, Francis Portela, and Andrew Dalhouse, and Ninjak/Shadowman: Rapture by Matt Kindt, CAFU, Roberto de la Torre, and Andrew Dalhouse, Unholy Grail #1 by Cullen Bunn, Mirko Colak, and Maria Santaolalla from Aftershock, Lobo/Road Runner Special by Bill Morrison, Kelley Jones, and Michelle Madsen, Legion of Super-Heroes Special by Sam Humphries, Tom Grummett, Scott Hanna, Steve Buccellato, Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam Special by Jimmy Palmiotti, Mark Texeira, and Paul Mounts, Evil Ernie: The Movie Monsters #1 by Phil Nutman, Greg Luzniak, Mark Pennington, Greg Mironiuk, Justiniano, and Jason Jensen from Chaos! Comics, Superman #22-26 by Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Michael Moreci, Scott Godlewski, HI-FI, Jaime Mendoza, Mick Gray, Joe Prado, Ray McCarthy, Scott Hanna, Matt Santorelli, Wil Quintana, and John Kalisz, Nick Fury by James Robinson, Aco, Hugo Petrus, and Rachelle Rosenberg, and a whole mess more!

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: It's a fifth week podcast! There is only one way to celebrate, with Amalgam Comics! Plus we discuss Ben Affleck is off of the Batman movie. Also we review Baltimore: The Red Kingdom #1, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink #8, The Fear Diaries #1, and Justice League Dark get reviewed. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWS Ben Affleck Steps Down as Director of Batman Movie http://majorspoilers.com/2017/01/31/movies-ben-affleck-drops-batman-directing-gig/ REVIEWS STEPHEN BALTIMORE: THE RED KINGDOM #1 Writer: Mike MIgnola, Christopher Golden Artist: Peter Bergting Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Lord Baltimore is missing. The Red King—evil incarnate—is taking over the world. Baltimore's team has been driven apart, with some of them dying on the frontlines while others are in hiding. Since the day he set out for revenge on the vampire who killed his family, Baltimore's fight has gotten bigger than he'd ever imagined, but what role will he take as evil finally threatens to consume the world?! [rating:4.5/5] MATTHEW MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: PINK #6 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Writers: Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson, & Tini Howard Artist: Daniele Di Nicuolo Price: $3.99 Synopsis: Final issue! Are Kimberly, Trini, and Zack ready to leave behind the life of a Ranger once more? What does this mean for Tommy and Kimberly? [rating:4.5/5] RODRIGO THE FEAR DIARIES #1 (W) Garrett Gunn (A) Nicolas Touris, Jim Callahan, Ulises Grostieta (L) HdE A dangerous threat to children across the world has returned. In the depths of The Nightmare Realm, The Dark Mistress has bode her time, waiting for the right moment to strike. Theodore Bearsly and his ragtag team of stuffed heroes face the greatest battle yet as they encounter The Dark Mistress' army of evil toys who will stop at nothing to collect the fear of every child on earth. [rating:2.5/5] ASHLEY JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK director: Jay Oliva written by: JM DeMattieus & Ernia Altbacker Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains. This team of supernatural beings include John Constantine, Zatanna and Jason Blood also known as the demon Etrigran. [rating: 5/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK http://majorspoilers.com/2017/01/31/major-spoilers-poll-week-superfight-part-3/ If you want to suggest a trade paperback, you need to send an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com. That suggestion will go into the hopper and at least once a month, we'll pick a number of suggestions for you to vote on, and at the end of the polling period, the book with the most votes will get the Major Spoilers Podcast treatment. DISCUSSION Bruce Wayne Agent of SHEILD Bruce Wayne Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was written by Chuck Dixon with art by Cary Nord and Mark Pennington. AMAZON Amazon, written and drawn by John Byrne, featured Amazon aka Princess Ororo Munroe of Themiscyra. CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: It’s a fifth week podcast! There is only one way to celebrate, with Amalgam Comics! Plus we discuss Ben Affleck is off of the Batman movie. Also we review Baltimore: The Red Kingdom #1, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink #8, The Fear Diaries #1, and Justice League Dark get reviewed. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWS Ben Affleck Steps Down as Director of Batman Movie http://majorspoilers.com/2017/01/31/movies-ben-affleck-drops-batman-directing-gig/ REVIEWS STEPHEN BALTIMORE: THE RED KINGDOM #1 Writer: Mike MIgnola, Christopher Golden Artist: Peter Bergting Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Lord Baltimore is missing. The Red King—evil incarnate—is taking over the world. Baltimore’s team has been driven apart, with some of them dying on the frontlines while others are in hiding. Since the day he set out for revenge on the vampire who killed his family, Baltimore’s fight has gotten bigger than he’d ever imagined, but what role will he take as evil finally threatens to consume the world?! [rating:4.5/5] MATTHEW MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: PINK #6 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Writers: Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson, & Tini Howard Artist: Daniele Di Nicuolo Price: $3.99 Synopsis: Final issue! Are Kimberly, Trini, and Zack ready to leave behind the life of a Ranger once more? What does this mean for Tommy and Kimberly? [rating:4.5/5] RODRIGO THE FEAR DIARIES #1 (W) Garrett Gunn (A) Nicolas Touris, Jim Callahan, Ulises Grostieta (L) HdE A dangerous threat to children across the world has returned. In the depths of The Nightmare Realm, The Dark Mistress has bode her time, waiting for the right moment to strike. Theodore Bearsly and his ragtag team of stuffed heroes face the greatest battle yet as they encounter The Dark Mistress' army of evil toys who will stop at nothing to collect the fear of every child on earth. [rating:2.5/5] ASHLEY JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK director: Jay Oliva written by: JM DeMattieus & Ernia Altbacker Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains. This team of supernatural beings include John Constantine, Zatanna and Jason Blood also known as the demon Etrigran. [rating: 5/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK http://majorspoilers.com/2017/01/31/major-spoilers-poll-week-superfight-part-3/ If you want to suggest a trade paperback, you need to send an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com. That suggestion will go into the hopper and at least once a month, we’ll pick a number of suggestions for you to vote on, and at the end of the polling period, the book with the most votes will get the Major Spoilers Podcast treatment. DISCUSSION Bruce Wayne Agent of SHEILD Bruce Wayne Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was written by Chuck Dixon with art by Cary Nord and Mark Pennington. AMAZON Amazon, written and drawn by John Byrne, featured Amazon aka Princess Ororo Munroe of Themiscyra. CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.

Jeanne Hoffman talks with, Mark Pennington, who’s book, “Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy,” has just been released. Dr. Pennington is a Reader in Public Policy and Political Economy at the University of London.