In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After, visionary economist Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, with a special focus…

Drawing upon comprehensive research across five countries, including case studies of housing, water, and health, comprehensive theoretical and empirical accounts are offered of the impact of financialisation on economic and…

Ben FIne traces the origins of social capital through the work of Becker, Bourdieu and Coleman and reviews the literature across the social sciences. This book is topical and uniquely…

This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive approach. An interesting analysis of the complex relationship between industrial change and political economy…

The Salsa King of Scarsdale tells the half-comic, half-tragic story of Ira Brodsky's transformation from a successful gynecologist and wealthy suburban family man to the king of Scarsdale; a man…

In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches in studies of consumption as well as the most recent literature are addressed and incorporated, with wide reference to theoretical…

Understanding consumption requires looking at the systems by which goods and services are provided - not just how they are produced but the historically evolved structures, power relations and cultures…

This book presents the results and implications of detailed and wide-ranging research on the history and current dynamics of the South African economy, from the Second World War. It analyses…