Book Award for SOAS Academic
8 July 2009
Professor of Economics Ben Fine has been awarded the 2009 Gunnar Myrdal Prize for his collaborative book ‘From Political Economy to Economics – Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory’.
The book, which was written with fellow academic Dimitris Milonakis, Head of Economics at the University of Crete, was described by judges as “the most outstanding monograph”.
It is the first of three projected co-authored volumes - the second, ‘From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and Other Social Sciences’ (2009), has already been published. The third, ‘Reinventing the Economic Past: Method and Theory in the Evolution of Economic History’, is in the early stages of preparation.
The two thousand euro prize is funded by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) and will be presented at its Annual Conference on 8 November 2009 in Amsterdam.
Professor Fine said: “It’s a wonderful personal honour for Dimitri and myself to receive this prize but, even more important, this is the highest of acclaims from our peers for the political economy practised at SOAS”.
Other publications by Professor Fine include ‘Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water’ (2008) co-edited with Kate Bayliss; ‘The New Development Economics: A Critical Introduction’, edited with K. S. Jomo, (2006); ‘The World of Consumption. The Material and Cultural Revisited’ (2002); and ‘Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium’ (2001). His second book on social capital, ‘Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly’, is in press and will appear in early 2010. . The fifth edition of ‘Marx’s Capital’, now co-authored with Alfredo Saad-Filho, is set to appear around the same time.
For more about his work visit Ben Fine's personal page.
