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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?.

“A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality” (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fine, B. “A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality”. London

The purpose of this note is to offer some original technical results in the theoretical measurement of inequality. Whilst most practitioners are content to work with one or other measure, with Gini for example to the fore, and discuss the empirical r... Read More about “A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality”.

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.

Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State (2019)
Book
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.

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

Economic Policies for the Many Not the Few: Assessing the Economic Strategy of the Labour Party (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.