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The arbitration of nature: state, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition (2021)
Journal Article
Reinsborough, M. (in press). The arbitration of nature: state, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition. Water History, 13(3), 337-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-021-00284-6

Begun in the summer of 1923, the Silent Valley Reservoir was the first large scale civil engineering project after the division between the North and the South of Ireland. It was the continuation of a previous project. In the late Nineteenth Century... Read More about The arbitration of nature: state, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition.

The Labour Theory of Value, Simple Commodity Production and the Transformation Problem (2021)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (in press). The Labour Theory of Value, Simple Commodity Production and the Transformation Problem. Critique (Abingdon. Online), 49(1/2), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2021.1934080

This article revaluates contemporary criticism of Marx’s value theory. Key tenets of Marx’s value theory are widely rejected. The use of labour (abstract or otherwise) as a standard of value is deemed ‘mystical’ or ‘magical’. The logical-historical m... Read More about The Labour Theory of Value, Simple Commodity Production and the Transformation Problem.

Marx’s Forgotten Transformation Solution: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production in Marx’s Grundrisse and Maksakovsky’s The Capitalist Cycle (2021)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (in press). Marx’s Forgotten Transformation Solution: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production in Marx’s Grundrisse and Maksakovsky’s The Capitalist Cycle. History of Economics Review, 80(1), 18-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/10370196.2021.1952004

This article explains that in the Grundrisse Marx considered that the discontinuity in his transformation procedure was no logical inconsistency, but a necessary feature of the disproportionate transition to capitalist production dominated by the acc... Read More about Marx’s Forgotten Transformation Solution: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production in Marx’s Grundrisse and Maksakovsky’s The Capitalist Cycle.

China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was (2020)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (2021). China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was. Review of Radical Political Economics, 53(2), 300-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613420948968

This article examines the application of neoclassical economics to the discussion of China’s transition to the market in the 1990s and its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. It shows how this theory shaped, and misled, forecasts... Read More about China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was.

Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences (2020)
Book Chapter
Reinsborough, M. (2020). Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences. In K. Purgar (Ed.), Iconology of Abstraction: Nonfigurative Images and the Modern World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429262500-21

Twenty First Century computational neuroscience and Twenty First Century psychoanalysis have two very different ways of representing the mental life of the subject, each with its own merits and limitations. This paper performs a superimposition of Pe... Read More about Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences.

Art-Science Collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-Funded Synthetic Biology UK Research Centre (2020)
Journal Article
Reinsborough, M. (in press). Art-Science Collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-Funded Synthetic Biology UK Research Centre. NanoEthics: Studies of New and Emerging Technologies, 14, 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00367-3

Here I examine the potential for art-science collaborations to be the basis for deliberative discussions on research agendas and direction. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a science policy goal in synthetic biology and several ot... Read More about Art-Science Collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-Funded Synthetic Biology UK Research Centre.

An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China (2019)
Book Chapter
McQuinn, M. (2019). An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China. In Y. Zheng, & J. Qian (Eds.), Development and Poverty Reduction: A Global Comparative Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429292125-5

This chapter provides an overview of the interrelated issues affecting official development assistance (ODA) and situates a discussion of future trajectories for Development Assistance Committee (DAC)-China aid relations within these complex strands.... Read More about An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China.

Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project (2019)
Book Chapter
Rainey, S., Stahl, B., Shaw, M., & Reinsborough, M. (2019). Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project. In R. von Schomberg, & J. Hankins (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation: A Global Resource (379-392). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00035

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a key concept in current discourses concerning research governance and policy. The practice of Ethics Management in the European Union (EU) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Human Brain Proje... Read More about Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project.

An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities (2019)
Journal Article
Radetz, A., Reinsborough, M., Fisher, E., Corley, E., & Guston, D. (in press). An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities. Science and Public Policy, 46(6), 853-865. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz034

Increased funding of nanotechnology research in the USA at the turn of the millennium was paired with a legislative commitment to and a novel societal research policy for the responsible development of nanotechnology. Innovative policy discourses at... Read More about An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities.

Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study' (2018)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M. (2018). Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study'. Africana studia,

This article provides an overview of the weaknesses and strengths of trade unions in Africa, as neoliberal economic policies continue to spread across the continent. The Power Resources Approach is used as a conceptual framework. Five problems affec... Read More about Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study'.

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