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In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass (2025)
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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.

In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. (2025)
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Fine, B. (2025). In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004721555

The Economics of Everything, or Economics Imperialism, now has a dominant presence in development economics, and an agenda-setting role in development studies, with the World Bank taking a leading, if contested, role. This volume examines how this ha... Read More about In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5..

The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4 (2024)
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Fine, B., Bayliss, K., Robertson, M., & Saad-Filho, A. (2024). The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004706293

Drawing upon comprehensive research across five countries, including case studies of housing, water, and health, comprehensive theoretical and empirical accounts are offered of the impact of financialisation on economic and social reproduction, along... Read More about The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4.

Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 3 (2023)
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Fine, B. (2023). Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 3. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689275

In Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism, Ben Fine traces the cliometric revolution, from before its emergence through three phases of the new, the newer and the newest economic history. These phases are shown to correspond to those of “economics impe... Read More about Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 3.

Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 1 (2023)
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Fine, B. (2023). Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 1. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004682344

In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed, Ben Fine offers a selection of his key articles charting the rise of economics imperialism. Each article is accompanied by a preamble that sets the context in which it appeared,... Read More about Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 1.

Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2 (2023)
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Fine, B. (2023). Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004682351

In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase – anything goes as with freak... Read More about Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2.

Makroiktisat: Eleştirel Bir Kılavuz (2021)
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Fine, B., & Dimakou, O. (2021). Makroiktisat: Eleştirel Bir Kılavuz. Yordam Kitap Press

Makroiktisat, dünyanın bugün nasıl işlediğini kavrayabilmemiz için temel öneme sahip bir alan. Ancak bu alandaki kavrayışımız genelde ortodoks ve dogmatik çözümlemeleri esas alıyor. Ben Fine ve Ourania Dimakou’nun ezberleri bozan bu çalışması ise mak... Read More about Makroiktisat: Eleştirel Bir Kılavuz.

A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why (2021)
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Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2021). A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54143-9

Understanding consumption requires looking at the systems by which goods and services are provided – not just how they are produced but the historically evolved structures, power relations and cultures within which they are located. The Systems of Pr... Read More about A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why.

Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State (2019)
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Fine, B., Reynolds, J., & van Niekerk, R. (Eds.). (2019). Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

This book provides an overdue critical re-engagement with the analytical approach exemplified by the work of Harold Wolpe, who was a key theorist within the liberation movement. It probes the following broad questions: how do we understand the trajec... Read More about Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State.

Material Cultures of Financialisation (2018)
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Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (Eds.). (2018). Material Cultures of Financialisation. Routledge

This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation. It begins with a tight definition of financialisation in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser association... Read More about Material Cultures of Financialisation.

Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century (2013)
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Fine, B., Saraswati, J., & Tavasci, D. (Eds.). (2013). Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century. Pluto. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183p1qv

Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes. Through this approach, the c... Read More about Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century.

Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond (2012)
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Chang, K.-S., Fine, B., & Weiss, L. (Eds.). (2012). Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137028303

Blending theory and case studies, this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism, which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy. I... Read More about Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond.

The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research (2011)
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Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (Eds.). (2011). The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzdj

Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for ga... Read More about The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research.