Editing David Jenkins (bishop) (section)

==Political views==

Jenkins also became identified with opposition to the policies of the [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] and [[John Major|Major]] governments and subsequently was a critic of [[New Labour]].<ref name=BBC_obit /> He argued that what these governments shared was a dogmatic faith in the market<ref name=Chase_2000>{{cite journal |jstor=40722034 |title=Review: ''Market Whys and Human Wherefores: Thinking About Markets, Politics, and People'' by David Jenkins  |author=Edward Chase |journal=[[Challenge (economics magazine)|Challenge]] |year=2000 |volume=43 |pages=118–20   |doi=10.1080/05775132.2000.11472174 |s2cid=157737289 }}</ref> which had many pseudo-religious elements to it. This led him to write at length about what he saw as the intellectual deficiencies of economic theory and market theorising and its pseudo-theological character.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

His book ''Market Whys and Human Wherefores: Thinking Again About Markets, Politics, and People'' was an extended layman's critique of economic theory and its application to policy, in which he described himself as an 'anxious idiot'<ref name=Chase_2000 /> using the latter term in its original meaning of an ordinary person with no professional expertise.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rDT_wqBJjkgC&q=Market+whys+and+human+wherefores+:+thinking+again+about+markets,+politics+and+people ''Market Whys and Human Wherefores: Thinking Again About Markets, Politics, and People''], David Jenkins, Cassell, 2000, pages 10–11</ref> It nevertheless diagnosed many of the problems with economic theory and its application to a deregulated economy that would later be seen as prescient in the light of the global economic crisis of 2007 onwards.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} In ''Dilemmas of Freedom'', he also challenged the idea that markets created freedom.<ref>''Dilemmas of Freedom'', University of Southampton, 1989</ref> In ''Price, Cost, Excellence and Worth: Can the idea of a university survive the force of the market?'' he similarly questioned whether they were compatible with the idea of a university<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Price-cost-excellence-worth-university/dp/1873125100?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 ''Price, cost, excellence and worth: Can the idea of a university survive the force of the market?''], Centre for the Study of Theology in the University of Essex, 1991</ref> while in ''The Market and Health Care'', he addressed the issue of health care in a similar vein.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Market-Health-Care-David-Jenkins/dp/1870126092?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 ''The Market and health care''], University of Edinburgh, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, 1990</ref>