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Financialisation and Social Policy (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fine, B. (2009, November). Financialisation and Social Policy. Paper presented at Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Implications for Developing Countries, UNRISD, Geneva

Neo-Liberalism in Retrospect? – It’s Financialisation, Stupid (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fine, B. (2009, October). Neo-Liberalism in Retrospect? – It’s Financialisation, Stupid. Paper presented at Developmental Politics in the Neo-Liberal Era and Beyond, Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University

From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences (2009)
Book
Fine, B., & Milonakis, D. (2009). From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203880289

Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and in... Read More about From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences.

The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics (2009)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2009). The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(2), 175-191. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/ben036

Drawing upon individual and social choice theory, the economic approach to identity associated with Akerlof and Kranton is critically assessed in terms of its own definitional and technical conundrums. This leads on to an external critique in terms o... Read More about The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics.