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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
56
Citations
17829
World Ranking
985
National Ranking
105

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ben Fine is affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Studies in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various areas within social sciences, focusing notably on fields such as sociology and political science, finance, political science and international relations, gender studies, and management, monitoring, policy and law.

Their work often revolves around key topics including housing, finance, and neoliberalism; income, poverty, and inequality; political and economic history of the UK and US; gender, labor, and family dynamics; corruption and economic development; social policy and reform studies; and social and cultural dynamics.

Ben Fine has contributed publications to several journals and venues, with frequent publications in Theory & Struggle, European Journal of Social Theory, Consumption and Society, International Review of Applied Economics, and Yildiz Social Science Review.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain (2024), published in European Journal of Social Theory
  • From addressing to redressing consumption: how the System of Provision approach helps (2022), published in Consumption and Society
  • From social choice to inequality-decomposition: in the spirit of Arrow and Atkinson by way of Sen and Shorrocks (2021), published in International Review of Applied Economics
  • A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality (2020), published in Review of Social Economy
  • African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, Policy by Christopher Cramer, John Sender, and Arkebe Oqubay, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, xiv + 319 pp. (2020), published in The Developing Economies

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Kate Bayliss
  • Pedro Mendes Loureiro
  • Seeraj Mohamed
  • Mary Robertson
  • Alfredo Saad-Filho

Ben Fine's interdisciplinary approach integrates economics, political science, and social theory, addressing issues related to neoliberalism and inequality within the broader context of social policy and economic development.

Best Publications

  • Social capital versus social theory

    Ben Fine

  • The World of Consumption: The Material and Cultural Revisited

    Ben Fine

  • The Political Economy Of South Africa: From Minerals-energy Complex To Industrialisation

    Ben Fine

  • The Developmental State Is Dead—Long Live Social Capital?

    Ben Fine

  • The world of consumption

    Simon Clarke;Ben Fine;Ellen Leopold

  • Marx's Capital

    Ben Fine

  • Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly

    Ben Fine

  • From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

    Ben Fine;Dimitris Milonakis

  • From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory

    Dimitris Milonakis;Ben Fine

  • Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus

    Ben Fine;Costas Lapavitsas;Jonathan Pincus

  • Labour Market Theory: A Constructive Reassessment

    Ben Fine

  • Consumption in the Age of Affluence: The World of Food

    Ben Fine;Michael Heasman;Judith Wright

  • Thirteen Things You Need to Know About Neoliberalism

    Ben Fine;Alfredo Saad-Filho

  • Critical survey. Endogenous growth theory: a critical assessment

    Ben Fine

  • Financialization from a Marxist Perspective

    Ben Fine

  • Neither the Washington nor the post-Washington consensus: an introduction

    Ben Fine

  • On Marx's theory of agricultural rent ∗

    Ben Fine

  • From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

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  • The crisis in South Africa: Neoliberalism, financialization and uneven and combined development

    Samantha Ashman;Ben Fine;Susan Newman

  • Feminism, Objectivity and Economics.

    Ben Fine;J. A. Nelson

  • Markets and money in social theory: what role for economics?

    Ben Fine;Costas Lapavitsas

  • Amnesty International? The Nature, Scale and Impact of Capital Flight from South Africa

    Samantha Ashman;Ben Fine;Susan Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Julie A. Nelson
Julie A. Nelson University of Massachusetts Boston
Alan Warde
Alan Warde University of Manchester
Harry G. Johnson
Harry G. Johnson University of Chicago

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