Nick Cowen is an associate professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln where he works at the intersection of political economy, moral economy, and criminology. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London where he was supervised by Mark Pennington and John Meadowcroft. He was previously a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law. He sits on the academic advisory council of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is the author of Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled (Edward Elgar, 2021), a reconciliation of progressive political commitments with the institutions of commercial society. His work has been published, among many other places, in Critical Review, Public Choice, American Journal of Political Science, Polity, and the British Journal of Criminology.