The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London

Authored Books

Fine, Ben (2010) Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly. IIPPE. Pluto.

Fine, Ben and Milonakis, Dimitris (2009) From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences. London; New York: Routledge.

Fine, Ben and Milonakis, Dimitris (2008) From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory. Routledge.

Fine, Ben (2002) The World of Consumption. The Material and Cultural Revisited. London: Routledge.

Fine, Ben (2001) Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium. London: Routledge.

Fine, Ben (1997) South Africa''s Political Economy: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation. London: Hurst.

Edited Books

Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben, eds. (2007) Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fine, Ben and Jomo, KS, eds. (2006) The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. Delhi: Tulika; London: Zed Press.

Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, Costas and Pincus , Jonathan, eds. (2001) Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge.

Chapters in Books

Fine, Ben (2010) 'Looking at the Crisis through Marx: Or Is It the Other Way about?' In: Kates, Steven, (ed.), The Meltdown of the World Economy: Alternative Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis. Edward Elgar, pp. 51-64.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Joseph Stiglitz.' In: Simon, D., (ed.), Fifty Key Thinkers on Development. London: Routledge, pp. 247-252.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Addressing the Consumer.' In: Trentmann, F., (ed.), The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World. UK: Berg, pp. 291-311.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Financial Programming and the IMF: the developmental state and the political economy of development.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, K.S., (eds.), The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika, pp. 87-100.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'New Growth Theory: More Problem than Solution.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, K.S., (eds.), The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika, pp. 68-86.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Kicking Away the Logic: Free Trade is Neither the Question Nor the Answer for Development.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, K.S., (eds.), The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika, pp. 46-67.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Introduction: The Economics of Development and the Development of Economics.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, K.S., (eds.), The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika, xv-xxii.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'The Developmental State and the Political Economy of Development.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, K.S., (eds.), The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika, pp. 101-122.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'The New Development Economics.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, K.S., (eds.), The New Development Economics. After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi; London: Tulika Books & Zed Books, pp. 1-20.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Social Capital.' In: Clark , D., (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2005) 'Correcting Stiglitz: From Information to Power in the World of Development.' In: Panitch, Leo and Leys, Colin, (eds.), Socialist Register 2006: telling the truth. London: Merlin Press.

Fine, Ben (2005) 'Social Policy and Development: Social Capital as Point of Departure.' In: Mkandawire , Thandike, (ed.), Social Policy in a Development Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 80-96.

Fine, Ben (2005) 'Beyond the Developmental State: Towards a Political Economy of Development.' In: Lapavitsas, Costas and Noguchi, M., (eds.), Beyond Market-Driven Development: Drawing on the Experience of Asia and Latin America. London: Routledge, pp. 17-33.

Fine, Ben (2004) 'Addressing the Critical and the Real in Critical Realism.' In: Lewis, P., (ed.), Transforming Economics: Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project. London: Routledge, pp. 202-226.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Capital Theory.' In: King, J., (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 51-57.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'An Extraordinary Discipline.' In: Fullbrook, E., (ed.), The Crisis in Economics, The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The First 600 Days. London: Routledge, pp. 147-149.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'New Growth Theory.' In: Chang, H.-J., (ed.), Rethinking Development Economics. London: Anthem Press, pp. 201-217.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Contesting Labour Markets.' In: Saad-Filho, A., (ed.), Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction. London: Pluto Press, pp. 82-93.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Value Theory and the Study of Contemporary Capitalism: A Continuing Commitment.' In: Westra , R. and Zuege , A., (eds.), Value and the World Economy Today. London: MacMillan.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'Neither the Washington nor the post-Washington consensus: an introduction.' In: Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, C. and Pincus, J., (eds.), Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge, pp. 1-27.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'The Social Capital of the World Bank.' In: Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, C. and Pincus, J., (eds.), Development policy in the 21st century : beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge, pp. 136-154.

Fine, Ben and Rose, P. (2001) 'Education and the post-Washington consensus.' In: Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, C. and Pincus, J., (eds.), Development policy in the 21st century : beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge, pp. 155-175.

Fine, Ben and Padayachee, V. (2001) 'A Sustainable Macroeconomic Growth Path for South Africa?' In: Coetzee, J., (ed.), Development: Theory, Policy and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 269-281.

Fine, Ben and Boateng, K. (2000) 'The Labour Market.' In: Aryeetey, E. and Harrigan, J. and Nissanke, M., (eds.), Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage. Oxford: James Currey, pp. 227-245.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'ESOP's Fable: Golden Egg or Sour Grapes?' In: Toporowski, J., (ed.), Political Economy and the New Capitalism: Essays in Honour of Sam Aaronovitch. London: Routledge, pp. 179-193.

Fine, Ben and Green, F. (2000) 'Economics, Social Capital and the Colonisation of the Social Sciences.' In: Baron, S., (ed.), Social Capital: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 78-93.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Ben FINE.' In: Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M., (eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 172-179.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Industrial and Energy Policy: A Partial Review.' In: Elbadawi, I. and Hartzenberg, T., (eds.), Development Issues in South Africa. London: MacMillan, pp. 110-142.

Articles

Fine, Ben and Gong, Gimm and Heesang, Jeon (2010) 'Value is as Value Does: Twixt Knowledge and the World Economy.' Capital and Class (100). pp. 69-83.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'Prospects for Marxist Political Economy.' MARXISM 21, 17 . pp. 234-246.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'Looking at the Crisis through Marx.' International Socialist Review (64).

Fine, Ben (2009) 'Enigma in the Origins of Paul Sweezy’s Political Economy.' Review of Political Economy, 21 (1). pp. 157-161.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics.' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33 (2). pp. 175-191.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'A Rejoinder to ‘A Response to Fine’s ‘Harvard Group Shores up Shoddy Governance’.' Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (69). pp. 66-79.

Fine, Ben and Saad Filho, Alfredo (2009) 'Twixt Ricardo and Rubin: Debating Kincaid Once More.' Historical Materialism, 17 (3). pp. 192-207.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'Submission to the COSATU Panel of Economists on ‘The Final Recommendations of the International Panel on Growth’ (The Harvard Panel).' Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (69). pp. 5-30.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neo-Liberalism.' Third World Quarterly, 30 (5). pp. 885-904.

Fine, Ben (2009) 'Understanding Global Crisis: Speculation at Expense of Real Economy.' South African Labour Bulletin, 33 (5). pp. 44-47.

Fine, Ben (2008) 'Social capital versus social history.' Social History, 33 (4). pp. 442-467.

Fine, Ben (2008) 'Social Capital in Wonderland: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass.' Progress in Development Studies, 8 (3). pp. 261-269.

Fine, Ben (2008) 'Vicissitudes of Economics Imperialism.' Review of Social Economy, 66 (2). pp. 235-240.

Fine, Ben (2008) 'Debating Lebowitz: Is Class Conflict the Moral and Historical Element in the Value of Labour Power.' Historical Materialism, 16 (3). pp. 105-114.

Fine, Ben and Saad Filho, Alfredo (2008) 'Production vs. Realisation in Marx’s Theory of Value: A Reply to Kincaid.' Historical Materialism, 16 (4). pp. 167-180.

Fine, Ben (2008) 'Consumers and Demand.' Mimeo . (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2007) 'From Sweetness to McDonald’s: How Do We Manufacture (the Meaning of) Foods?' The Review of Social & Economic Studies, 29 (2). pp. 247-271.

Fine, Ben (2007) 'Social Capital Development in Practice.' Development in Practice, 17 (4 & 5). 566-574.

Fine, Ben and Milonakis, Dimitris (2007) 'Douglass North’s Remaking of Economic History: A Critical Appraisal.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 39 (1). pp. 27-57.

Fine, Ben (2007) 'Rethinking Critical Realism: Labour Markets or Capitalism.' Capital and Class (91). pp. 125-129.

Fine, Ben (2006) 'Debating Critical Realism in Economics.' Capital and Class (89). pp. 121-129.

Fine, Ben (2005) 'From Actor-Network Theory to Political Economy.' Capitalism Socialism Nature, 16 (4). pp. 91-108.

Fine, Ben and Petropoulos, Aris and Sato, Hajime (2005) 'Beyond Brenner’s Investment Overhang Hypothesis: The Case of the Steel Industry.' New Political Economy, 10 (1). pp. 43-64.

Fine, Ben (2004) 'Examining the Idea of Globalisation and Development Critically: What Role for Political Economy?' New Political Economy, 9 (2). pp. 213-231.

Fine, Ben and Saad Filho, Alfredo and Lapavitsas, Costas (2004) 'Transforming the Transformation Problem: Why the ‘New Interpretation’ is a Wrong Turning.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 36 (1). pp. 3-19.

Fine, Ben (2004) 'Debating Production-Consumption Linkages in Food Studies.' Sociologia Ruralis, 44 (3). pp. 332-342.

Fine, Ben (2004) 'Contesting Social Capital: A Response to Elke Zuern.' Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (55). pp. 113-115.

Fine, Ben (2004) 'Globalisation or Panglossianisation?: A Critical Response to Keith Griffin.' Development and Change, 35 (3). pp. 583-589.

Fine, Ben (2004) 'Economics and Ethics: Amartya Sen as Starting Point.' The New School Economic Review, 1 (1). pp. 151-162.

Fine, Ben and Milonakis, D. (2003) 'From Principle of Pricing to Pricing of Principle: Rationality and Irrationality in the Economic History of Douglass North.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45 (3). pp. 120-144.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Political Economy and Nature: From ANT and Environmental Economics to Bioeconomics?' Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 14 (3). pp. 357-372.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Callonistics: A Disentanglement.' Economy and Society, 32 (3). pp. 496-502.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Social Capital: The World Bank's Fungible Friend.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 3 (4). pp. 586-603.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Social Capital.' Oikonomikos Tachidromos (Economic Courier), 42 (2580). pp. 62-65.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'Social Capital for Africa?' Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (53). pp. 29-52.

Fine, Ben (2003) 'From the Newer Economic History to Institutions and Development?' Institutions and Economic Development, 1 (1). pp. 105-136.

Fine, Ben (2002) 'Economics Imperialism and the New Development Economics as Kuhnian Paradigm Shift.' World Development, 30 (12). pp. 2057-70.

Fine, Ben (2002) 'They F**k You Up Those Social Capitalists.' Antipode, 34 (4). 796-799.

Fine, Ben (2002) 'Economic Imperialism: A View from the Periphery.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 34 (2). pp. 187-201.

Fine, Ben (2002) 'It Ain't Social, It Ain't Capital and It Ain't Africa.' Studia Africana (13). pp. 18-33.

Fine, Ben (2002) '‘Imperialismo Económico’: Una Visión desde la Perifia.' Revista Banco Central de Venezuela, 16 (2). pp. 131-153.

Deraniyagala, Sonali and Fine, Ben (2001) 'New Trade Theory Versus Old Trade Policy: A Continuing Enigma.' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 25 (6). pp. 809-25.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'Social Capital and the Realm of the Intellect.' Economic and Political Weekly, 36 (9). pp. 741-745.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'What Is the Future of the Welfare State?' Oikonomikos Tachidromos, 44 (2478). pp. 71-73.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'The Continuing Imperative of Value Theory.' Capital and Class (75). pp. 7-18.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'Economics Imperialism as Kuhnian Revolution.' International Paper in Political Economy, 8 (2). pp. 1-58.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'It Ain't Social and It Ain't Capital.' Research in Progress (1). pp. 11-15.

Fine, Ben (2001) 'Economics Imperialism and the Social Sciences: Prognosis and Challenges.' Praksis, 3 . pp. 154-184.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Whither the Welfare State: Public versus Private Consumption?' SOAS Working Papers in Economics (92). pp. 1-28.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Bringing the Social Back Into Economics: Progress or Reductionism?' Department of Economics Research Paper, University of Melbourne (731). pp. 1-23.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'New and Improved: Economics' Contribution to Business History.' SOAS Working Papers in Economics (93). pp. 1-16.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Endogenous Growth Theory: A Critical Assessment.' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 24 (2). pp. 245-265.

Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, Costas (2000) 'Markets and Money in Social Theory: What Role for Economics?' Economy and Society, 29 (3). pp. 357-382.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Economics Imperialism and Intellectual Progress: The Present as History of Economic Thought?' History of Economics Review, 32 . pp. 10-36.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Consumption for Historians: An Economist's Gaze.' SOAS Working Papers in Economics (91). pp. 1-18.

Fine, Ben (2000) 'Dialectics and Crisis Theory: A Response to Tony Smith.' Historical Materialism, 6 (1). pp. 133-137.

Fine, Ben (1997) 'Entitlement Failure?' Development and Change, 28 (4). pp. 617-647.

Fine, Ben 'Financialisation, the Value of Labour Power, the Degree of Separation, and Exploitation by Banking.' mimeo . (Unpublished)

Conference or Workshop Items

Fine, Ben (2009) Political Economy for the Rainbow Nation: Dividing the Spectrum? In: South African Sociological Association 2009 Conference, 28 June - 2 July, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2009) Financialisation and Social Policy. In: Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Implications for Developing Countries, 12–13 November 2009, UNRISD, Geneva. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2009) Neo-Liberalism in Retrospect? – It’s Financialisation, Stupid. In: Developmental Politics in the Neo-Liberal Era and Beyond, 22-24 October 2009, Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) From Financialisation to Neo-liberalism. In: New forces in the World Economy, 27th October, 2008, Coimbra, Portugal. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) Neo-liberalism as Financialisation. In: Neo-Liberalism and the Middle East. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) The Minerals-Energy Complex is Dead: Long Live the MEC? In: Amandla Colloquium. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) Zombieconomics: The Living Death of the Dismal Science in the Age of Neo-Liberalism. In: ESRC Neoliberalism Seminar, 1st April 2008, Centre for Public Policy for Regions (CPPR), University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neo-Liberalism. In: 35th anniversary conference for the Center for International Development Issues, September 2008, CIDIN, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) Social Capital and Health: The World Bank through the Looking Glass after Deaton. In: Seminar for School of Oriental and African Studies / London International Development Centre, 12th March 2008, London. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2008) Engaging the MEC: Or a Lot of My Views on a Lot of Things. In: MEC Workshop, June, 2008, University of KwaZulu-Natal. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2007) The General Impossibility of Neoclassical Economics: Or Does Bertrand Russell Deserve a Nobel Prize for Economics? In: Science and the Social Sciences. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2007) The Curious Incidence of the Developmental State in the Night-Time. In: SANPAD Poverty Conference, 26-30 June, 2007, Ethekwin, Durban. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2007) The Historical Logic of Economics Imperialism and Meeting the Challenges of Contemporary Orthodoxy: Or Twelve Hypotheses on Economics, and What is to Be Done. In: EAEPE Conference, 1-3 November 2007, Porto, Portugal. (Unpublished)

Fine, Ben (2007) Financialisation, Poverty, and Marxist Political Economy. In: Poverty and Capital Conference, 2-4 July 2007, University of Manchester. (Unpublished)

Monographs

Fine, Ben and Hailu, Degol (2003) Convergence and Consensus: The Political Economy of Stabilisation, Poverty and Growth. Discussion Paper. CDPR Discussion Paper 2202.

Fine, Ben (2001) Amartya Sen: A Partial and Personal Appreciation. Discussion Paper. UNSPECIFIED.

Other

Fine, Ben (2006) Critical Realism and Heterodoxy. Mimeo. (Unpublished)