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The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7 (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731653

South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Ener... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7.

Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making (2025)
Book Chapter
Mohamed, S., & Fine, B. (2025). Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making. In R. Herrera (Ed.), Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism (141-167). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020250000040010

In absolute terms, and relative to both hopes and potential, post-apartheid economic and social reproduction has been a disaster. A key element in explaining this is to situate it within an extraordinarily rapid and full adjustment, albeit with pecul... Read More about Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making.

Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems (2025)
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Stevano, S. (2025). Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems

The study of food systems through a gender lens highlights gender roles and relations in the production, processing, and consumption of food. The concept of “food system” has a long history, but its uses have increased significantly in recent decades... Read More about Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems.

Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry (2025)
Journal Article
Goga, S., & Roberts, S. (online). Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251344362

The geographic reach of multinational corporations means that mergers and restrictive agreements in one jurisdiction, such as in north America or Europe, may impact on countries around the world. We analyze the role of multinationals in shaping poult... Read More about Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry.

The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development (2025)
Book Chapter
Volz, U., & Aitken, D. (2025). The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development. In J. A. Mathews, & A. Oqubay Metiku (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development (295-318). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198883487.013.19

This chapter discusses the role of the financial sector in greening economic development and the need to align finance with climate and other sustainability goals. Starting with a discussion of prevailing market failures in finance, the chapter makes... Read More about The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development.

Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity (2025)
Journal Article
Murau, S., Goghie, A.-S., & Giordano, M. (online). Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity. Journal of Financial Regulation, Article fjaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjaf003

Despite the significance of repurchase agreements (repos) in market-based finance, European repo markets remain underexplored. Drawing on monetary hierarchy literature, we make three conceptual arguments. First, we argue that repos’ balance sheet mec... Read More about Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity.

In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004723511

Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticised in its endeavours across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalisation, neoliberalism and financialisation. This Volu... Read More about In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass.