Ben Fine: 19 books
Theories of Social Capital
Researchers Behaving Badly
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
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...
by Ben Fine
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
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...
From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
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...
The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals)
Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
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...
1929
A Zimbell House Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
1929 was the end of a golden age. Six aspiring writers spin tales set in a time in history when changes were afoot. While some sought the American Dream, others had to deal with vampiric siblings. Facing lost loves and gaining new freedoms define the beginning of a new age. Of course, the government...
Microeconomics
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both...
The World of Consumption
The Material and Cultural Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
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,...
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
The Collapse of an Economic Order?
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a ‘free’ market ethic. Bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated...
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
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, increasingly...
by Zimbell House Publishing, E. W. Farnsworth, Ben Fine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The trials and tribulations of settling the western half of America over a hundred and fifty years ago are legendary. With the numerous mountain ranges came the inevitable need for the settlers to cross them. This premise is what prompted Zimbell House to create this anthology.
The Mountain...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Sammi Cox, Ben Fine
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Tournament Games features seven short tales of old set in the middle ages.
From whimsical Knights to battle hardened warriors; a murder mystery to the fall of Camelot; mythical creatures & ghosts; even a young girls deepest desire for the prized zither at the tournament, each story offers a glimpse into an age gone by.
by Zimbell House Publishing, Ben Fine, Cameron Vanderwerf
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Where Cowboys Roam is a collection of fourteen Western themed short stories from ten unique writers that spin yarns capturing the feel of the West from both yesterday and today.
Each story in this collaborative collection depicts various aspects of life in a section of American history know as the Old West.
The Political Economy Of South Africa
From Minerals-energy Complex To Industrialisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening economic inequalities. Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic system, this book presents the results and implications of wide-ranging research on the history and current dynamics of the South...
by Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad-Filho
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This brilliantly concise book is a classic introduction to Marx’s key work, Capital. In print now for over a quarter of a century, and previously translated into many languages, the new edition has been fully revised and updated, making it an ideal modern introduction to one of the most important...
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