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"In this book, Ben Fine offers a selection of his key articles charting the rise of economics imperialism. Each article is accompanied by a preamble that sets the context in which it appeared, with an overall introduction drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship"--

"In this book, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase - anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new overall introduction and literature survey drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship"--

"In Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism, Ben Fine traces the cliometric revolution, from before its emergence through three phases of the new, the newer and the newest economic history. These phases are shown to correspond to those of "economics imperialism", the colonisation of topics and fields by mainstream economics, moving successively through as if they are perfectly working markets imperfectly working markets, and these combined plus arbitrary inclusion of other variables"--

"In Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism, Ben Fine traces the cliometric revolution, from before its emergence through three phases of the new, the newer and the newest economic history. These phases are shown to correspond to those of "economics imperialism", the colonisation of topics and fields by mainstream economics, moving successively through as if they are perfectly working markets imperfectly working markets, and these combined plus arbitrary inclusion of other variables"--

Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed offers a selection of key articles charting the rise of economics imperialism. Articles are accompanied by preambles setting their context, with an overall introduction drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship.

In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After, Ben Fine tracks economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade. Critical context is provided through an overall introduction and literature survey drawing out overall significance for contemporary scholarship.

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices. The collection brings together major contributions on the value theory debate from the decade prior to the book's publication, and assesses the debate's significance for wider issues. Value theory emerges as much more than a technical relation between labour time and prices, and the structure of the capitalist economy is scrutinised. This is a relevant and comprehensive work, valuable to students, academics and profess

ch. 1. Introduction / Ben Fine -- ch. 2. The law of value in Ricardo and Marx / Geoffrey Pilling -- ch. 3. Production, circulation and value / Ira Gerstein -- ch. 4. Transformations of physical conditions of production : Steedman's economic metaphysics / Heiner Ganssmann -- ch. 5. On Marx's theory of agricultural rent / Ben Fine -- ch. 6. Sraffa versus Ricardo : the historical irrelevance of the 'corn-profit' model / Gilbert Faccarello -- ch. 7. Note : a dissenting note on the transformation problem / Ben Fine -- ch. 8. The logic of prices as values / Guglielmo Carchedi.

The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben Fine charts the ways in which the theoretical understanding of the British coal industry has changed over the past two centuries and discusses the arguments surrounding public ownership versus the privatization of the industry. In the second part, the book presents a critical assessment of the exist

The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben Fine charts the ways in which the theoretical understanding of the British coal industry has changed over the past two centuries and discusses the arguments surrounding public ownership versus the privatization of the industry. In the second part, the book presents a critical assessment of the exist.

Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept.

Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social theory. The rise and fall of social capital at the World Bank is critically explained as is social capital's growing presence in disciplines, such as management studies, and its relative absence in others, such as social history.

Writing with a sharp critical edge, Fine not only deconstructs the roller-coaster presence of social capital across the social sciences but also draws out lessons on how (and how not) to do research.