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Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium (2001)
Book
Fine, B. (2001). Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203470787

The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they use the complex algebra and statistics beloved of mainstream... Read More about Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium.

Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus (2001)
Book
Fine, B., Lapavitsas, C., & Pincus, J. (Eds.). (2001). Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203418796

The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy t... Read More about Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus.

Financial System Design and the Post-Washington Consensus (2001)
Book Chapter
Lapavitsas, C., & Aybar, S. (2001). Financial System Design and the Post-Washington Consensus. In C. Lapavitsas, B. Fine, & J. Pincus (Eds.), Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus (28-51). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203418796-6

The role of the financial system in the development process is a central concern of the post-Washington consensus, and a major bone of contention with the Washington consensus. The rise of the post-Washington consensus has coincided with the relative... Read More about Financial System Design and the Post-Washington Consensus.

Entry (2001)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2001). Entry. In P. Arestis, & M. Sawyer (Eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, second edition (172-179). Edward Elgar