Ben Fine

For the New York Times reporter, see Benjamin Fine.

Ben Fine (born 1948) is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of a number of works in the broad tradition of Marxist economics, and has made contributions on economic imperialism and social capital. Perhaps his most significant book to date is: Marx's 'Capital' 5th ed. (2010). He took his doctorate in economics at the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Amartya Sen. He was professor at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Cambridge. Currently he is a member of the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency.

Selected bibliography

• Class Politics: An Answer to its Critics, (with other authors) (1985)
• Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium (Contemporary Political Economy) (2001)
• Marx's Capital fifth edition, 2010
• Rereading Capital (with L Harris), Macmillan, 1979
• Economic Theory and Ideology Edward Arnold, 1980
• Theories of the Capitalist Economy Edward Arnold, 1982
• Macroeconomics and Monopoly Capitalism (with A Murfin), Wheatsheaf, 1984
• The Peculiarities of the British Economy (with L Harris et al), Lawrence and Wishart, 1985
• The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the nineteenth century to the present day Routledge Revivial, 2013
• Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family, Routledge Revival, 2012
• South Africa's Political Economy: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation (with Z Rustomjee), Wits University Press, 1997.
• Consumption in the Age of Affluence (with M Heasman and J Wright) Routledge, 1996
• Labour Market Theory: A Constructive Reassessment, Routledge, 2010
• The Political Economy of Diet, Health and Food Policy, Routledge, 1998
• Social Capital versus Social Theory, Routledge, 2001
• The World of Consumption Routledge, 2002
• From Political Economy to Economics, (with D Milonakis) Routledge, 2009
• From Economic Imperialism to Freakonomics (with D Milonakis), Routledge, 2009
• Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly, Pluto, 2009

Edited Books

• Making Democracy Work: a Framework for Macroeconomic Policy in South Africa

Joint contributing editor, Cape Town, CDS, 1994

• Development Policy in the 21st Century: Beyond the post-Washington Consensus, Routledge

With C Lapavitsas and J Pincus (eds) 2001

• The New Development Economics: after the Washington Consensus, ed with K.S. Jomo, Zed Press 2006
• Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century co-ed with J Saraswati and D Tavasci, Pluto, 2013

External links

• Ben Fine page at SOAS