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Mark Peacock

Mark Peacock is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Professor in the Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, where he teaches in the Business & Society undergraduate programme and the Social and Political Thought graduate programme. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1996 and worked at Witten/HerdeckeUniversity and Erfurt University in Germany before moving to Canada in 2006. His research interests are heterodox economics, philosophical and ethical aspects of economics, history of money. His monograph Introducing Money was published by Routledge in 2013.

Research Scholar and Professor in the Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto

Publications

An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame: Can the Rich be Poor?

This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for examining poverty.

Market Processes and the Ethics of Consumption

Consumers are often implicated in upholding unjust economic practices that arise when they purchase commodities produced in ethically unacceptable ways. Consumers are, however, ignorant about the production of many of the commodities they buy...