Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand and Senior Research Fellow attached to the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg. He served as an international expert advisor on President Mandela’s Labour Market Commission. He pioneered the system of provision approach, with Ellen Leopod, in their 1992 book, The World of Consumption, Routledge, subsequently revised, 2002. His recent books include as contributing editor, with K. Bayliss, Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008; From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory, awarded the 2009 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences, awarded the 2009 Deutscher Prize, both with Dimitris Milonakis, 2009, Routledge; Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly, 2010; as contributing editor, with K. Bayliss and E. van Waeyenberge, The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research, 2011; and similarly with J. Saraswati and D. Tavasci, Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century, 2013, all with Pluto Press; and co-edited with Kyung-Sup Chang and Linda Weiss, Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, Routledge, 2013. He currently sits on the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency for which he chaired the Working Group on Reform of Slaughterhouse Controls.
Professor Ben Fine
