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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.

Social Capital: The Indian Connection (2025)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2025). Social Capital: The Indian Connection. In S. Damodaran, S. Gupta, S. Mitra, & D. Sinha (Eds.), Development, Transformations and the Human Condition: Volume in Honour of Professor Jayati Ghosh (56-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003528425-5

Whilst no longer as prominent as it was at the turn of the millennium when being promoted by the World Bank, social capital still remains a significant, if fundamentally flawed, category within social science in general and development studies in par... Read More about Social Capital: The Indian Connection.

Locating Vishnu as Engaged Political Economist, A Personal Journey (2025)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2025). Locating Vishnu as Engaged Political Economist, A Personal Journey. In R. Mesthrie, R. Van Niekerk, & I. Valodia (Eds.), Political Economy and Critical Engagement in South Africa: Essays in Honour of Vishnu Padayachee (198-216). UKZN Press

The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Economics: A Personal Account (2025)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2025). The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Economics: A Personal Account. In G. Meramveliotakis, & M. Manioudis (Eds.), Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism (13-28). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349402-3

The evolution of mainstream development economics to its current approaches will be laid out. Emphasis will be placed on the shifting and uneven influences of the more general mainstream economics itself, developments within the global economy, the r... Read More about The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Economics: A Personal Account.

Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision (2024)
Book Chapter
Bayliss, K., & Fine, B. (2024). Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision. In A. Vetterlein, & T. Schmidtke (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (38-50). Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204780.00013

The trajectory of World Bank economics is traced including its relationship with development economics more generally. Initially, of little prominence but wedded to the old/classic development economics and the idea of modernization, it has moved thr... Read More about Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision.

Financialisation and Development (2024)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2024). Financialisation and Development. In E. Dauncey, V. Desai, & R. B. Potter (Eds.), Companion to Development Studies (4th edition) (387-392). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-77

Especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8, financialisation has become a buzzword across the social sciences over the past two decades, with the notable exception of mainstream economics. With heterodox political economy taking the lead,... Read More about Financialisation and Development.

Towards Interdisciplinarity as Instinctive (2022)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2022). Towards Interdisciplinarity as Instinctive. In L. Chester, & T.-H. Jo (Eds.), Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects (290-325). World Economics Association Books

Situating PPPs (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2020). Situating PPPs. In J. Gideon, & E. Unterhalter (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships (26-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429280450-2

This chapter aims both to reflect upon the emergence of Public Private Partnerships (PPP), and the PPP literature, and to offer a means by which the significance of PPPs can be assessed. On the other hand, case studies across different countries and... Read More about Situating PPPs.

Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2020). Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation. In A. Santos, & N. Teles (Eds.), Financialisation in the European Periphery : Work and Social Reproduction in Portugal (257-272). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429439902-16

An appropriate starting point is with capitalist economic reproduction which forms a part of social reproduction but to which the latter is not reducible. Whatever the ways within which it fits into interpretations of Marx’s value theory, a number of... Read More about Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation.

The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., & Christophers, B. (2020). The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value. In P. Mader, D. Mertens, & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization (19-30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142876-2

Many have criticized Marxism for the tight notion of value, including those within the Marxist tradition itself, primarily because value is seen as an inadequate concept for explaining price formation. As it were, the myriad of factors that affect pr... Read More about The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value.

Financialisation and the Future for SOEs (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2020). Financialisation and the Future for SOEs. In L. Bernier, M. Florio, & P. Bance (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises (354-371). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351042543-20

This chapter argues consideration of the future for SOEs must be set in the context of broader transitions in the role of the (neoliberalised) state. These include processes of privatisation and financialisation as well as broader shifts in economic... Read More about Financialisation and the Future for SOEs.

Marx and Value: The Enigma Code for Contemporary Capitalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2019). Marx and Value: The Enigma Code for Contemporary Capitalism. In M. Davis, H. Bains, B. de la Motte, & M. Jump (Eds.), Marx200 – The Significance of Marxism in the 21st Century (7-11). Praxis Press

Post-apartheid South Africa: It’s Neoliberalism, Stupid! (2019)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2019). Post-apartheid South Africa: It’s Neoliberalism, Stupid!. In J. Reynolds, B. Fine, & R. van Niekerk (Eds.), Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

The Material and Culture of Financialisation (2018)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2018). The Material and Culture of Financialisation. In K. Bayliss, B. Fine, & M. Robertson (Eds.), Material Cultures of Financialisation (17-28). Routledge

In and Against Orthodoxy: Teaching Economics in the Neoliberal Era (2018)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2018). In and Against Orthodoxy: Teaching Economics in the Neoliberal Era. In S. Decker, W. Elsner, & S. Flechtner (Eds.), Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics International Perspectives on a Textbook Science (78-94). Routledge