Andrew Gamble FBA, AcSS, FRSA is a British author and academic. Since January 2007 he has been Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. Previously he worked in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield (1973-2007).
Educated initially at Brighton College, as an undergraduate he read economics at Cambridge, before gaining his MA in political theory from the University of Durham. He then returned to Cambridge for his PhD in Social and Political Sciences.
Whilst at Sheffield, he was a founder member and Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC), Chairman of the Department of Politics (twice), and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University. He received his Chair in Politics in 1986.
In 2005 he was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Award for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the PSA.
His 2003 book, Between Europe and America, won the W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for the best book published in political science in 2003.
He is currently co-editor (with the Labour MP Tony Wright) of the prestigious journal The Political Quarterly. The main themes of his recent research have been Asset-based welfare and 'Anglo-America'.
His most recent book, an analysis of the politics of recession and capitalist crises, is entitled The Spectre at the Feast.
Published works
Single-authored books:
- The Spectre at the Feast (2009)
- Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics (2003)
- Politics and Fate (2000)
- Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty (1996)
- The Free Economy and the Strong State (1988, 2nd Edition 1994)
- Britain in Decline (1981, 4th Edition 1994)
- An Introduction to Modern Social and Political Thought (1981)
- The Conservative Nation (1974)
Co-authored books:
- Ideas, Interests & Consequences (1989)
- The British Party System and Economic Policy 1945-1983 (with S. A. Walkland) (1984).
- Capitalism in Crisis (with Paul Walton) (1976).
- From Alienation to Surplus Value (with Paul Walton) (1976).
Books edited/ co-edited:
- Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-liberal Globalisation (2007).
- Restating the State? (2004).
- The Political Economy of the Company (2000).
- Marxism and Social Science (1999).
- The New Social Democracy (1999).
- Fundamentals in British Politics (1999).
- Stakeholder Capitalism (1997).
- Regionalism & World Order (1996).
- The Social Economy and the Democratic State (1989)
- Developments in British Politics (series 1-7-1983-2003).
External links
- Staff Profile, Department of Politics, University of Cambridge
- The Political Quarterly (journal edited by Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright MP)
- Staff profile, Sheffield University
- review of Politics and Fate by Bernard Crick
- recent paper on Anglo-America
- April 2007 PSA conference paper, on Hegemony and Empire: British Exceptionalism and the Myth of Anglo-America
- paper on Gamble's work on Hayek
- PERC website