Benjamin L. McKean
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
32
Citations
255
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
17
Publishing since 2009
Benjamin L. McKean is a political theorist who studies neoliberalism (the political and economic philosophy favoring free markets and limited government intervention), global justice, and the ethics and politics of global supply chains. His work examines how economic precarity, climate change, and populism relate to political freedom and democratic theory, often engaging with thinkers like Rawls in critical or reconstructive ways.
Publications were sparse before 2020, spiked sharply in 2020 (likely tied to a book publication and related pieces), then declined to a steady but low output of one to two items per year through 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: an exchange on subjection and emancipation
Contemporary Political Theory · 2025
- No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world
Contemporary Political Theory · 2023
- Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness. By Neil Vallelly. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2021. 248p. $29.95 cloth. - Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South. Edited by Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe. New York: Zone Books, 2022. 376p. $28.00 cloth.
Perspectives on Politics · 2023
- The political theory of global supply chains
Contemporary Political Theory · 2022
- Supply Chains and Organizing Against Precarity
Emancipations · 2022
- Regaining control over precarity
Contemporary Political Theory · 2021
- Our Deluded Demos?
Radical Philosophy Review · 2021
- Book Review: Review Essay: Rawls’s Untimely Meditations, or On the Use and Abuse of Rawlsianism for Life <i>In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy</i> , by Katrina Forrester
Political Theory · 2021
- Response to Steven Klein’s Review of <i>Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom</i>
Perspectives on Politics · 2021
- The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State. By Steven Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 250p. $99.99 cloth.
Perspectives on Politics · 2021
- Seeing (Like) Supply Chain Managers
2020
- Conclusion
2020
- The Outer Limit of Freedom
2020
- The Significance of Solidarity
2020
- Neoliberal Theory as a Source of Orientation
2020
- Contemporary Political Theory×4
- Perspectives on Politics×3
- Political Theory×2
- American Political Science Review×1
- The Journal of Politics×1
- William E. Scheuerman
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Brian Kogelmann
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Eric MacGilvray
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- J. P. Messina
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Emma Saunders‐Hastings
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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