Dr Mark Duckenfield
Position: Lecturer in Politics of the World Economy
Research Interests: International political economy, central banks, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the euro, the monetary role of gold/central bank gold policy, financial crises, global firms in world politics, European Union politics, German politics.
Contact details: Department of International Relations, London School of
Economics,
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5118
- Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7446
- Email: m.e.duckenfield@lse.ac.uk
- Room number: D707
- Assistant: Katharine Caun, Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7560
Biographical Note
Dr Mark Duckenfield is
Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of International
Relations where he teaches Comparative Political Economy and International
Political Economy. Dr Duckenfield previously taught European Politics and
Policy and International Relations at University College London and the
Politics of the European Union at
Dr Duckenfield's
most recent publication, Business and the
Euro, examines the attitudes and activities of business
associations in
As a Lecturer at the LSE, Dr Duckenfield has also been involved in the intellectual design and implementation of various executive education programmes with Enterprise LSE, giving talks on Foreign Exchange Issues and International Trade to associates at the Syrian Central Bank, discussing EMU and the New Accession states at the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance and the Bank of England and lecturing on international trade and monetary institutions at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Dr Duckenfield has commented on international economic affairs for the BBC World Service, BBC World Business and served as ITV News' German election analyst for the 2005 German elections.
Books
Battles Over Free Trade: Anglo-American Experiences with International Trade, 1776-2006, general editor of four volume edited edition, (London: Pickering&Chatto, 2008). ISBN 978-1851969357 [1616 pages]
[other volume editors: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Anthony Howe, Gordon Bannerman].
Business and the Euro: Business Groups and the Politics of EMU in Germany and the United Kingdom, (London: Palgrave, 2006). ISBN 1403998639 [256 pages]
History of Financial Disasters, Vol. 3: 1929-1995, (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006), editor. ISBN 9781851968251 [592 pages]
The Monetary History of Gold: A Documentary History, 1660-1999, (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2004), editor. ISBN 1851967850 [424 pages]
Articles
"Central
Bank Gold Sales: A Veto Player Perspective," New Political Economy, Vol. 13, No. 3 (September 2008),
pp. 271-292.
"De wereld
van vand aag in vogelvlucht," Idee, 2008, No. 3 (
"The Partisan Politics of Gold: Switzerland and the Sale of Gold," West European Politics, Vol. 29, No. 1 (January 2006), pp. 113-133.
"Nasty or NICE? The National Institute for Clinical Excellence and Technology Assessment," International Journal of Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 2003), pp. 122-133.
"Learning to be NICE: Technology Assessment as Marketing at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence," International Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 2003), pp. 331-344.
"Bundesbank-Government Relations in Germany in the 1990s: From GEMU to EMU," West European Politics, Vol. 22, No. 3 (July 1999), pp. 87-108.
"The Goldkrieg: Revaluing the Bundesbank's Reserves and the Politics of EMU," German Politics, Vol. 8, No. 1 (April 1999), pp. 113-137.
"Invasion of the Western Ampelmaennchen," German Politics, Vol. 6, No. 3 (December 1997), pp. 54-69. [with Noel Calhoun]
"Terminator 2: A Call to Economic Arms," Studies in Popular Culture, Vol. 17, No. 1 (October 1994), pp. 1-19.
Other Publications
Battles Over Free Trade: Anglo-American Experiences with International Trade, 1776-2006, general editor of four volume edited edition, (London: Pickering&Chatto, 2008). ISBN 978-1851969357 [other volume editors: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Anthony Howe, Gordon Bannerman, 1616 pages]
History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995, (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006), ISBN 9781851968251 [general editor of 3 volume series; volume editors Stefan Altorfer-Ong, Mark Duckenfield and Benedikt Koehler; 1280 pages]
Patient Groups and the Drug Development Process, report for the Policy Innovation Group, (University College London, 2004). [with Dwijen Rangekar]
Empowered Patients? Patient groups, politics and the drug innovation process, report for the Policy Innovation Group, (University College London, September 2002). [with Dwijen Rangekar]
The
Drug Innovation and Development Process: Possibilities and Prospects for
Patient Participation, (
"The Swiss National Bank and the Proposed Sale of Gold," World Gold Council Research Study Series, No. 21 (October 1998).
Current Research
Gold, Governments and Central Banks, book manuscript, under contract with Palgrave for publication in 2009.
"Exchange Rate Politics and the Attitudes of British firms," article revise and resubmit from European Union Politics [with Mark Aspinwall]
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Media Consultancy/Commentary
Invited Lectures
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University of
Texas-Austin, "Economic and Monetary
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Sciences Po (
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Bank of
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Consultancies
o Finance Foundation, Geneva/London
(2007-8).
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World Gold Council,
Television
o BBC Waking the Dead [expert advisor/commentator]
o BBC World Business Report
o ITV GMTV
o ITV News [in-studio German election commentator]
o SkyNews
o Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Bloomberg
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Iranian television
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FOX News (WHNS)
Radio
o WNYC – The Leonard Lapote Show. [.mp3]
o BBC World Service
o National Public Radio To the Point
o BBC Radio 4 World at One
o BBC Radio4 Routemasters [selected for Pick of the Week]
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BBC
Print Media
o The Evening Standard
o The New Yorker
o International Herald Tribune
Teaching
London School
IR 120. Politics of Trade, Development and the Environment
(Summer 2007)
IR 450. International Political Economy (2004-9)
IR 451. Politics of Money in the World Economy (2002-3, 2004-7)
IR 460. Comparative Political Economy (2004-9)
Enterprise
Basque Regional Government – European Political Economy and
Finance (2008) [Academic Coordinator]
Hong Kong SAR – Comparative Politics and Public
Administration (2007) [Academic Coordinator]
Government of
Government of
Taiwanese Ministry of Economics - The European Union:
Economic and Monetary
Taiwanese Ministry of Economics - The European Union: Institutions (2006)
Syrian Central Bank - Foreign Exchange Issues and International Trade (2006)
University College
London
Comparative European Politics and Policy (2006)
Political Geography of European Integration (2003-4)
MPhil/PhD Research Methodology Seminar (2000-3)
International Relations of the European Union (2001-3)
Harvard University
Govt 98 - Politics of the European Union (2000)
Updated
October 2008.