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The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7 (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731653

South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Ener... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7.

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.

In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004723511

Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticised in its endeavours across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalisation, neoliberalism and financialisation. This Volu... Read More about In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass.

In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. (2025)
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Fine, B. (2025). In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004721555

The Economics of Everything, or Economics Imperialism, now has a dominant presence in development economics, and an agenda-setting role in development studies, with the World Bank taking a leading, if contested, role. This volume examines how this ha... Read More about In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5..

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.