I am now working in AI governance. For my current work, see mpbbennett.github.io.


This site is an archive of my previous academic career in political philosophy.
My academic work focused on the relationship between capitalism and democracy, drawing on political theory, philosophy and economics. The publications and CV on this site reflect that body of work.
From 2019 to 2024 I was a lecturer in philosophy at Nottingham Trent University. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University, working on the research project "Private Property and Political Power in a Liberal-Democratic Society", led by Rutger Claassen.  We launched a Massive Online Open Course on Inequality and Democracy that's free for anyone to take. My research focused on business corporations: how to keep companies accountable to the public good, and how businesses should engage with democracy.

In 2017, I completed my PhD at the University of York, entitled, "Democracy and its Relationship with the Market: Impartial Instrumentalism in Politics and Constitutional Design." I developed an epistemic justification of democracy, and look at how markets pose a challenge to democracy justified in these terms. My supervisors were Martin O'Neill and Matthew Festenstein.