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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. 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)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. Brill. 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.

The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4 (2024)
Book
Fine, B., Bayliss, K., Robertson, M., & Saad-Filho, A. (2024). The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004706293

Drawing upon comprehensive research across five countries, including case studies of housing, water, and health, comprehensive theoretical and empirical accounts are offered of the impact of financialisation on economic and social reproduction, along... Read More about The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4.

Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision (2024)
Book Chapter
Bayliss, K., & Fine, B. (2024). Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision. In A. Vetterlein, & T. Schmidtke (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (38-50). Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204780.00013

The trajectory of World Bank economics is traced including its relationship with development economics more generally. Initially, of little prominence but wedded to the old/classic development economics and the idea of modernization, it has moved thr... Read More about Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision.

Financialisation and Development (2024)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2024). Financialisation and Development. In E. Dauncey, V. Desai, & R. B. Potter (Eds.), Companion to Development Studies (4th edition) (387-392). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-77

Especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8, financialisation has become a buzzword across the social sciences over the past two decades, with the notable exception of mainstream economics. With heterodox political economy taking the lead,... Read More about Financialisation and Development.

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.

Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 3 (2023)
Book
Fine, B. (2023). Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 3. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689275

In Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism, Ben Fine traces the cliometric revolution, from before its emergence through three phases of the new, the newer and the newest economic history. These phases are shown to correspond to those of “economics impe... Read More about Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 3.

Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 1 (2023)
Book
Fine, B. (2023). Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 1. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004682344

In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed, Ben Fine offers a selection of his key articles charting the rise of economics imperialism. Each article is accompanied by a preamble that sets the context in which it appeared,... Read More about Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 1.

Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2 (2023)
Book
Fine, B. (2023). Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004682351

In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase – anything goes as with freak... Read More about Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After; Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2.

Heterodox Economics and Social Change in Bleak Times: Challenges Confronting the Engaged Scholar in the Academy Leading to Appreciation of Vishnu Padayachee: The Director’s Rough Cut (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fine, B. (2023, February). Heterodox Economics and Social Change in Bleak Times: Challenges Confronting the Engaged Scholar in the Academy Leading to Appreciation of Vishnu Padayachee: The Director’s Rough Cut. Paper presented at In Honour of Vishnu Padayachee: In Panel on Challenging the hegemony of neo-classical economics: insights gained on social change by aligning heterodox economic thought with the Humanities (and vice versa)

Towards Interdisciplinarity as Instinctive (2022)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2022). Towards Interdisciplinarity as Instinctive. In L. Chester, & T.-H. Jo (Eds.), Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects (290-325). World Economics Association Books

From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps (2022)
Journal Article
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.