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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.

From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory (2008)
Book
Fine, B., & Milonakis, D. (2008). From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203887110

Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how ec... Read More about From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory.

From Financialisation to Neo-liberalism (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fine, B. (2008, October). From Financialisation to Neo-liberalism. Paper presented at New forces in the World Economy, Coimbra, Portugal

Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neo-Liberalism (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fine, B. (2008, September). Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neo-Liberalism. Presented at 35th anniversary conference for the Center for International Development Issues, CIDIN, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands