Welcome to Russell Keat’s web site, where you will find information about his research, and online access to his papers on market boundaries, and ethics and markets.
Russell Keat is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh, where he was previously Head of the School of Social and Political Studies.
His main area of research is political theory and market economies. Most recently, this has focused on the ethical character of market institutions and different kinds of capitalism; before that, on cultural goods and the proper boundaries between market and non-market spheres, with publications including Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) and two collections co-edited with Nick Abercrombie and Nigel Whiteley: Enterprise Culture (London: Routledge, 1991) and The Authority of the Consumer (London: Routledge, 1994).
His earlier research included work on realism and the philosophy of social science (Social Theory as Science, with John Urry, London: Routledge, 1975/1982); Habermas's critical theory (The Politics of Social Theory: Habermas, Freud and the Critique of Positivism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1981), and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology (Understanding Phenomenology, with Michael Hammond and Jane Howarth, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
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