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1. Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family (Routledge Revivals)

   By Ben Fine

   First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family is an analysis of the contemporary political interest in the position of women. The author critically assesses much of the literature examining the rapidly changing lives of women and contributes to it by offering an explanation...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

   The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

   By Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless,...

   Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
3. From Political Economy to Economics

   Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory

   By Dimitris Milonakis, Ben Fine

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...

   Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
4. Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century

   Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus

   Edited by Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas, Jonathan Pincus

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post-Washington consensus. The concern of the contributors in writing this collection was that this consensus has established itself as a new orthodoxy, more powerful and widespread than...

   Published March 19th 2003 by Routledge
5. The World of Consumption

   The Material and Cultural Revisited

   By Ben Fine, Ellen Leopold

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   In the opinion of many people the last decade saw the arrival of the `consumer society'. However, the response of social theory to consumerism has been barely appropriate to the scale of the changes. As an antidote to this, the authors propose the adoption of a new, more inclusive theoretical...

   Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge
6. The World of Consumption

   The Material and Cultural Revisited, 2nd Edition

   By Ben Fine, Ellen Leopold

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches as well as the most recent literature are fully addressed and incorporated,...

   Published March 20th 2002 by Routledge
7. Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family

   Towards a Political Economy of Gender and Labour Markets

   By Ben Fine

   Published January 30th 2002 by Routledge
8. Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century

   Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus

   Edited by Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas, Jonathan Pincus

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the Post-Washington Consensus is unlikely to...

   Published March 7th 2001 by Routledge
9. Social Capital Versus Social Theory

   By Ben Fine

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy

   The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they use the compex algebra and statistics beloved of mainstream economic theory and measure 'units' of health care...

   Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge
10. The Political Economy of Diet, Health and Food Policy

    By Ben Fine

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The Political Economy of Diet and Health continues the exploration of food systems theory begun in the author's previous publications. It presents a critical exposition of food systems theory and analyses the existing approaches to food consumption. Subjects include: * resolving the diet paradox *...

    Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge