At the same time that the World Bank appears to be going through a process of replacing the
Washington consensus with the Post‐Washington consensus, the notion of social capital is …

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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 …

… Ben Fine is a professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS),
University of London. This paper is a written text of a talk, as continues to be reflected, in …

… Ben Fine's main argument in this book is that such concers cannot be judged in terms of
mathematical methods and that to try t odo so is overly simplistic.Fine assesses the impact of …

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 …

Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening
economic inequalities. Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic …

It is not often that I find myself in agreement with The Economist on a matter of economic
theory. But, in its issue in the week before Christmas 1998, it repeated an exercise of ten years …

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 …

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, the Washington consensus dominated development
theory and policy. The term, coined in the late 1980s, denoted a series of measures that were …