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Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., Robertson, M., & Saad-Filho, A. (2024). Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain. European Journal of Social Theory, 27(4), 540-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310241241800

Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured understandings of the neoliberal state. We argue that state intervention is both necessary and... Read More about Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain.

Discrimination through Bargaining Structures: Gender Bias in the National Coal Board and British Coal (2023)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2023). Discrimination through Bargaining Structures: Gender Bias in the National Coal Board and British Coal. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2023.44.4

In its analysis of the pay determination of British Coal canteen workers, this article introduces that by Kathy O’Donnell, who argues that, in all but name, canteen workers were part of a single bargaining structure that included male surface minewor... Read More about Discrimination through Bargaining Structures: Gender Bias in the National Coal Board and British Coal.

From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps (2022)
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Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2022). From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps. Consumption and Society, 1(1), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1332/KDRH7457

Critics of consumption studies contend that it has become conceived as a broad catch-all for too diverse a range of phenomena, forcing these categorically into questionable commonalities around the consumer/consumed without regard to conceptual clari... Read More about From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps.

Kimlik İktisadı mı, İktisadın Kimliği mi? = Introduction to, and Turkish Translation of, "The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?" (2021)
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Fine, B. (2021). Kimlik İktisadı mı, İktisadın Kimliği mi? = Introduction to, and Turkish Translation of, "The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?". Yildiz Social Science Review, 7(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.51803/yssr.887532

Bireysel ve sosyal teoriden hareket eden bu makalede, Akerlof ve Kranton’la bağdaştırılan kimlik iktisadı yaklaşımı, kendi tanımsal ve teknik çıkmazları üzerinden eleştirel bir şekilde değerlendirilmektedir. Bu değerlendirme, kimlik konusunu ana akım... Read More about Kimlik İktisadı mı, İktisadın Kimliği mi? = Introduction to, and Turkish Translation of, "The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?".

From Social Choice to Inequality-Decomposition: In the Spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by Way of Sen and Shorrocks (2021)
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Fine, B., & Mendes Loureiro, P. (2021). From Social Choice to Inequality-Decomposition: In the Spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by Way of Sen and Shorrocks. International Review of Applied Economics, 35(5), 765-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2021.1892039

This article forges connections between social choice theory and inequality-measurement to deliver a series of advances to the latter. It discusses the ethical and formal aspects connecting the fields, linking the roles played by the intensity of pre... Read More about From Social Choice to Inequality-Decomposition: In the Spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by Way of Sen and Shorrocks.

A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality (2020)
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Fine, B., & Mendes Loureiro, P. (2022). A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality. Review of Social Economy, 80(4), 550-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2020.1802055

This note introduces original technical results in the theoretical measurement of inequality by specifying the relationships between additive separability and homotheticity (of measures of welfare closely related to measures of inequality), and decom... Read More about A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality.

Marx’s Rent Theory Revisited? Landed Property, Nature and Value (2019)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2019). Marx’s Rent Theory Revisited? Landed Property, Nature and Value. Economy and Society, 48(3), 450-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2019.1663052

Drawing upon recent interpretation of Marx’s newly published papers, a debate published in the journal 40 years ago over Marx’s theory of rent is revisited, for reassessment as such and to consider its relevance for the analysis of contemporary issue... Read More about Marx’s Rent Theory Revisited? Landed Property, Nature and Value.

Economics and Interdisciplinarity: One Step Forward, N Steps Back? (2019)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2019). Economics and Interdisciplinarity: One Step Forward, N Steps Back?. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 131-148. https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.9230

Mainstream economics has become more interdisciplinary. Why is this? Does it represent a break with its intra-disciplinary character? How does it relate to major points of criticism – the lack of realism and disregard for methodology and alternative... Read More about Economics and Interdisciplinarity: One Step Forward, N Steps Back?.

Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2019). Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective. International Review of Applied Economics, 33(4), 542-567. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2019.1617252

Drawing upon 50 years as an academic economist, this lecture to alumni of SOAS’s Department of Economics reflects upon the continual ‘post-truth’ aspects of mainstream economics, ranging over its substantive, if shifting, content, and its treatment o... Read More about Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective.

Economic Policies for the Many Not the Few: Assessing the Economic Strategy of the Labour Party (2019)
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Fine, B., & Saad Filho, A. (2019). Economic Policies for the Many Not the Few: Assessing the Economic Strategy of the Labour Party. Theory & Struggle, 120, 76-88. https://doi.org/10.3828/ts.2019.10

The dramatic and unexpected election and re-election of Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour Party leadership, as well as the disarray of the Tory government under Theresa May in the wake of the Brexit negotiations and poor electoral performance, have raised... Read More about Economic Policies for the Many Not the Few: Assessing the Economic Strategy of the Labour Party.

“The Continuing Imperative of Value Theory”, translated into Turkish (2019)
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Fine, B., Gimm, G. H., & Jeon, H. (2019). “The Continuing Imperative of Value Theory”, translated into Turkish. Fiscaoeconomia, 3(S1), 70-94. https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.2019.s1.004

This paper addresses two important, conspicuous topics for the understanding of contemporary capitalism: the world market and the knowledge economy. By locating these within Marx’s value theory, its authors take issue with other interpretations that... Read More about “The Continuing Imperative of Value Theory”, translated into Turkish.

The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited (2018)
Journal Article
Padayachee, V., & Fine, B. (2018). The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited. Review of African political economy, 46(159), 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352

Many commentators have pointed to the 1993 International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, which occurred on the eve of South Africa’s democratic elections, as a key factor in explaining the shift in African National Congress (ANC) economic policy in the 199... Read More about The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited.

Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value (2018)
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Fine, B., & Saad Filho, A. (2018). Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value. Review of Political Economy, 30(3), 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2018.1424068

Marxist political economy is alive and well, and not just because of the habitual turn to Marx in response to any crisis of capitalism. Both through Capital and through the continuing evolution of Marxism, Marxist political economy offers valuable in... Read More about Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value.