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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.

The Material and Culture of Financialisation (2018)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2018). The Material and Culture of Financialisation. In K. Bayliss, B. Fine, & M. Robertson (Eds.), Material Cultures of Financialisation (17-28). Routledge

Material Cultures of Financialisation (2018)
Book
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (Eds.). (2018). Material Cultures of Financialisation. Routledge

This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation. It begins with a tight definition of financialisation in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser association... Read More about Material Cultures of Financialisation.

In and Against Orthodoxy: Teaching Economics in the Neoliberal Era (2018)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2018). In and Against Orthodoxy: Teaching Economics in the Neoliberal Era. In S. Decker, W. Elsner, & S. Flechtner (Eds.), Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics International Perspectives on a Textbook Science (78-94). Routledge

Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: ROAPE/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017 (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bush, R., Graham, Y., Zeilig, L., Bush, R., Graham, Y., Zeilig, L., Lawrence, P., Martiniello, G., Fine, B., Ajl, M., Engels, B., Crawford, G., & Botchwey, G. Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: ROAPE/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017

The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited (2018)
Journal Article
Padayachee, V., & Fine, B. (2018). The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited. Review of African political economy, 46(159), 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352

Many commentators have pointed to the 1993 International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, which occurred on the eve of South Africa’s democratic elections, as a key factor in explaining the shift in African National Congress (ANC) economic policy in the 199... Read More about The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited.

Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value (2018)
Journal Article
Fine, B., & Saad Filho, A. (2018). Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value. Review of Political Economy, 30(3), 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2018.1424068

Marxist political economy is alive and well, and not just because of the habitual turn to Marx in response to any crisis of capitalism. Both through Capital and through the continuing evolution of Marxism, Marxist political economy offers valuable in... Read More about Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value.