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The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy (2017)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2017). The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy. In I. Ye (Ed.), Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies: Opportunities and Challenges (29-60). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53377-7_2

The welfare regime approach to social policy is shown to be past its use-by date, not least for imposing an ever-expanding set of ideal types that do not fit unyieldingly variegated outcomes across sectors and countries. Moreover, like many other app... Read More about The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy.

Marxist Economics (2017)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., & Saad Filho, A. (2017). Marxist Economics. In L. Fischer, J. Hasell, J. Proctor, D. Uwakwe, Z. Ward-Perkins, & C. Watson (Eds.), Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economic (19-32). Routledge

This chapter explains the essential elements of Marxist economics or, preferably, Marxist political economy (MPE). This analysis provides the foundation for Marx's systemic critique of capitalism and his conclusion that the contradictions and limitat... Read More about Marxist Economics.

Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation (2016)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (2016). Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation. New Political Economy, 22(4), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259304

This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financi... Read More about Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation.

Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015 (2016)
Journal Article
Fine, B., Johnston, D., Santos, A., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2016). Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015. Development and Change, 47(4), 640-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12240

The 2015 World Development Report, Mind Society and Behaviour (World Bank, 2015), seeks a redesign of development policy on the basis of insights emerging from behavioural economics. This paper offers a critical assessment of the Report across four d... Read More about Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015.