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Locating Industrial Policy in Developmental Transformation: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fine, B., & Mohamed, S. Locating Industrial Policy in Developmental Transformation: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future. London

What can we learn from structural change of countries that successfully industrialised in the 20th and 21st century? This paper explains that current attempts at economic transformation of the structure of countries’ economies, including industrial d... Read More about Locating Industrial Policy in Developmental Transformation: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future.

The Relevance of Financialization for African Economies: Lessons from South Africa (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ashman, S., Fine, B., & Karwowski, E. The Relevance of Financialization for African Economies: Lessons from South Africa. London

While research has highlighted that financialization critically affects African economies and societies through its effect upon commodity prices, international value chain participation, and land, there are few accounts of the systemic and macroecono... Read More about The Relevance of Financialization for African Economies: Lessons from South Africa.

Kimlik İktisadı mı, İktisadın Kimliği mi? = Introduction to, and Turkish Translation of, "The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?" (2021)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2021). Kimlik İktisadı mı, İktisadın Kimliği mi? = Introduction to, and Turkish Translation of, "The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?". Yildiz Social Science Review, 7(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.51803/yssr.887532

Bireysel ve sosyal teoriden hareket eden bu makalede, Akerlof ve Kranton’la bağdaştırılan kimlik iktisadı yaklaşımı, kendi tanımsal ve teknik çıkmazları üzerinden eleştirel bir şekilde değerlendirilmektedir. Bu değerlendirme, kimlik konusunu ana akım... Read More about Kimlik İktisadı mı, İktisadın Kimliği mi? = Introduction to, and Turkish Translation of, "The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?".

Makroiktisat: Eleştirel Bir Kılavuz (2021)
Book
Fine, B., & Dimakou, O. (2021). Makroiktisat: Eleştirel Bir Kılavuz. Yordam Kitap Press

Makroiktisat, dünyanın bugün nasıl işlediğini kavrayabilmemiz için temel öneme sahip bir alan. Ancak bu alandaki kavrayışımız genelde ortodoks ve dogmatik çözümlemeleri esas alıyor. Ben Fine ve Ourania Dimakou’nun ezberleri bozan bu çalışması ise mak... Read More about Makroiktisat: Eleştirel Bir Kılavuz.

From Social Choice to Inequality-Decomposition: In the Spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by Way of Sen and Shorrocks (2021)
Journal Article
Fine, B., & Mendes Loureiro, P. (2021). From Social Choice to Inequality-Decomposition: In the Spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by Way of Sen and Shorrocks. International Review of Applied Economics, 35(5), 765-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2021.1892039

This article forges connections between social choice theory and inequality-measurement to deliver a series of advances to the latter. It discusses the ethical and formal aspects connecting the fields, linking the roles played by the intensity of pre... Read More about From Social Choice to Inequality-Decomposition: In the Spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by Way of Sen and Shorrocks.

A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why (2021)
Book
Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2021). A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54143-9

Understanding consumption requires looking at the systems by which goods and services are provided – not just how they are produced but the historically evolved structures, power relations and cultures within which they are located. The Systems of Pr... Read More about A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why.

Situating PPPs (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2020). Situating PPPs. In J. Gideon, & E. Unterhalter (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships (26-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429280450-2

This chapter aims both to reflect upon the emergence of Public Private Partnerships (PPP), and the PPP literature, and to offer a means by which the significance of PPPs can be assessed. On the other hand, case studies across different countries and... Read More about Situating PPPs.

A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality (2020)
Journal Article
Fine, B., & Mendes Loureiro, P. (2022). A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality. Review of Social Economy, 80(4), 550-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2020.1802055

This note introduces original technical results in the theoretical measurement of inequality by specifying the relationships between additive separability and homotheticity (of measures of welfare closely related to measures of inequality), and decom... Read More about A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality.

Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2020). Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation. In A. Santos, & N. Teles (Eds.), Financialisation in the European Periphery : Work and Social Reproduction in Portugal (257-272). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429439902-16

An appropriate starting point is with capitalist economic reproduction which forms a part of social reproduction but to which the latter is not reducible. Whatever the ways within which it fits into interpretations of Marx’s value theory, a number of... Read More about Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation.

Financialisation and the Future for SOEs (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2020). Financialisation and the Future for SOEs. In L. Bernier, M. Florio, & P. Bance (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises (354-371). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351042543-20

This chapter argues consideration of the future for SOEs must be set in the context of broader transitions in the role of the (neoliberalised) state. These include processes of privatisation and financialisation as well as broader shifts in economic... Read More about Financialisation and the Future for SOEs.

The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., & Christophers, B. (2020). The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value. In P. Mader, D. Mertens, & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization (19-30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142876-2

Many have criticized Marxism for the tight notion of value, including those within the Marxist tradition itself, primarily because value is seen as an inadequate concept for explaining price formation. As it were, the myriad of factors that affect pr... Read More about The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value.

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”.