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Pluralizing social reproduction approaches (2025)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Rai, S., Stevano, S., Alessandrini, D., Bargawi, H., Elias, J., Hassim, S., Kesar, S., Thiyaga Lingham, J., Natile, S., N., N., Ossome, L., Raghuram, P., Tsikata, D., & Wöhl, S. (2025). Pluralizing social reproduction approaches. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27(1), 6-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2447594

The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism... Read More about Pluralizing social reproduction approaches.

Green macrofinancial regimes (2025)
Journal Article
Gabor, D., & Braun, B. (2025). Green macrofinancial regimes. Review of International Political Economy, 32(3), 542-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2025.2453504

Debates about climate policy have neglected the question of macrofinancial pathways to decarbonisation, not all of which are economically and politically viable. We propose a theory of macrofinancial regimes, understood as combinations of monetary, f... Read More about Green macrofinancial regimes.

Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Chukwuma, J. N., Romero, M. J., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (online). Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa. The Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-024-00140-2

In recent development policy discourse, an ambition to deliver comprehensive healthcare to all citizens in the Global South via publicly financed provisioning systems has been replaced by calls for universal health coverage (UHC). At the heart of tod... Read More about Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa.

Financial development and regional bank instability in the United States: An analysis of bank balance sheet structures (2025)
Journal Article
Cheng, P. (2025). Financial development and regional bank instability in the United States: An analysis of bank balance sheet structures. Competition & Change, 29 (2), 183-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251314230

This article demonstrates that financial development in the United States has heightened the vulnerability of both sides of regional banks’ balance sheets to financial market fluctuations, drawing on the concept of financial circulation of bank depos... Read More about Financial development and regional bank instability in the United States: An analysis of bank balance sheet structures.

Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fiankor, D.-D. D., Woubet, K., & Lartey, A. (2024). Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins. Washington, DC

This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction data at the firm-product level with bilateral inf... Read More about Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins.

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 Washington versus the Beijing Consensus: The Battle of Economic Policy Ideas and Africa’s Development – A Case Study of Nigeria (2025)
Thesis
Olufelo, D. Y. The Washington versus the Beijing Consensus: The Battle of Economic Policy Ideas and Africa’s Development – A Case Study of Nigeria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis critically examines Nigeria’s economic trajectory under the Washington Consensus and China’s success under the Beijing Consensus, assessing their impacts on trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), infrastructure development, and macroecon... Read More about The Washington versus the Beijing Consensus: The Battle of Economic Policy Ideas and Africa’s Development – A Case Study of Nigeria.

Investigating the Interface Between Maternal Employment, Health, and Well-Being Amongst Turkey’s Homebased Workers (2025)
Thesis
Onursal, K. I. Investigating the Interface Between Maternal Employment, Health, and Well-Being Amongst Turkey’s Homebased Workers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis considers the intersection between home-based employment, health and wellbeing, focusing particularly on the pregnancy, post-partum and pre-school years, as these are typically those which are most time intensive and involve periods of ho... Read More about Investigating the Interface Between Maternal Employment, Health, and Well-Being Amongst Turkey’s Homebased Workers.

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.

Female Labour Force Participation and the Care Economy: The Case of Egypt (2025)
Thesis
Almadhi, B. A. Female Labour Force Participation and the Care Economy: The Case of Egypt. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

According to official data sources, The MENA region has one of the lowest recorded female labour force participation rates (FLFPR) in the world, averaging 20.2% in 2022 (World Bank, 2024).There is no scarcity in research that attempts to understand t... Read More about Female Labour Force Participation and the Care Economy: The Case of Egypt.

Monetary Subordination in the Eurozone: Fragmentation and tiering of markets and institutions (2025)
Thesis
Giordano, M. Monetary Subordination in the Eurozone: Fragmentation and tiering of markets and institutions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The objective of this thesis is to specify the monetary and financial dimensions of hierarchy and subordination in the European Monetary Union. It seems clear at first sight that the European Monetary Union is riven by such relations, despite the pre... Read More about Monetary Subordination in the Eurozone: Fragmentation and tiering of markets and institutions.

From the bottom 40 to inequality lines: Sharing prosperity globally and domestically (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Niño-Zarazúa, M., Lopez-Noval, B., Roope, L., & Tarp, F. From the bottom 40 to inequality lines: Sharing prosperity globally and domestically. Helsinki

Abstract: A major of focus of global development policy is the aim to achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40% (B40) of the population at a rate higher than the national average. We propose an alternative approach to assessing shared prosp... Read More about From the bottom 40 to inequality lines: Sharing prosperity globally and domestically.

Whither economics imperialism? Debating Ambrosino, Cedrini and Davis (2024)
Journal Article
Heisse, C. (2025). Whither economics imperialism? Debating Ambrosino, Cedrini and Davis. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 32(1), 136-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2024.2433980

This paper comments on “Today’s economics: one, no one and one hundred thousand,” published recently in EJHET. The original paper offers a welcome discussion of economics imperialism in the recent and contemporary history of economic thought. This re... Read More about Whither economics imperialism? Debating Ambrosino, Cedrini and Davis.

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.

Uncomfortable knowledge, the production of ignorance, and the trustworthiness of UK policing (2024)
Journal Article
Fenton-O’Creevy, M., Bowles, B., Maguire, L., & Williams, E. (2024). Uncomfortable knowledge, the production of ignorance, and the trustworthiness of UK policing. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 18, Article paae117. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae117

In this article, we draw on emerging theories of the production of ignorance in organizations. We conduct a qualitative analysis of two forms of secondary data on policing in England and Wales: first, documents in the public domain from the Casey Rev... Read More about Uncomfortable knowledge, the production of ignorance, and the trustworthiness of UK policing.