Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After

Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 2

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Author:
Ben Fine
Contributor:
Dimitris Milonakis
In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After, 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.
Ranging over mainstream and heterodox economics, the disputes between them, the relationship between economics and other disciplines, and authors such as Lazear, Stiglitz and Akerlof, the accelerating presence of economics imperialism is documented alongside its perverse, critical neglect. The volume is imperative for those engaging in political economy across the social sciences.
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2024
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Ben Fine, Ph.D. (1974), London School of Economics, is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Visiting Professor at Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His most recent books include Material Cultures of Financialisation, co-edited with Kate Bayliss and Mary Robertson (Routledge, 2018); Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State, co-edited with John Reynolds and Robert van Niekerk (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019); and A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why, with Kate Bayliss (Palgrave, 2021). His Marx’s ‘Capital’ (Pluto, 2016) is now in its sixth edition (with co-author Alfredo Saad Filho). He was founding Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (iippe.org) until June 2023.
Preface

1 Introduction and Overview
 1 Picking up the Threads

 2 Twin Peaks


2 Economics Imperialism: a History of a Revolution in Economics that Never Was (Acknowledged)
 1 Introduction

 2 The Forward March of “Economics Imperialism” Halted

 3 The (In)Visibility of Economics Imperialism

 4 Balance against the Unbalanced/Imbalanced?

 5 Economics Imperialism Is as Variegated as Economics Imperialism Does

 6 Strategic Considerations by Way of Conclusion


3 ‘Economic Imperialism’: a View from the Periphery
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Introduction

 2 The Historical Anomaly

 3 The Anomaly of Scope

 4 The Anomaly of Resistance

 5 The Prospects for Radical Political Economy


4 “Household Appliances and the Use of Time: the United States and Britain since the 1920s” – a Comment
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Introduction

 2 A False Economy of Time?

 3 From Time to Demand

 4 The Appliance of Economic Science?

 5 Towards a Durable Alternative


5 The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics?
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Introduction

 2 Identity as Individual Choice

 3 Identity as Social Choice

 4 Identity and the Social

 5 The Economics of Identity as Economics Imperialism

 6 Concluding Remarks


6 Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Economics Imperialism in Action and Inaction
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Disciplinary and Personal Beginnings

 2 Bringing Back In, bbi, as Analytical Context

 3 Economics and Social Choice: Marriage and Divorce

 4 Interpreting the History of Social Choice Theory in Reverse?


7 The Road Ahead: from Freakonomics to Political Economy
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Introduction

 2 Economic Crisis and Economic Theory

 3 The (General) Criticisms

 4 Clearing the Ground

 5 Methodological Issues

 6 Questions of the History of Economic Thought

 7 Economics Imperialism and the Role of Finance

 8 The Road Ahead


8 Freakonomics as Thickening End of the Symbolic Wedge
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Response to Jack Vromen


9 Vicissitudes of Economics Imperialism
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Speaker’s Corner


10 Economics and Interdisciplinarity: One Step Forward, N Steps Back?
 Postscript as Personal Pre-amble

 1 Economics Is as Economics Does

 2 Economics Imperialism

 3 Acknowledging the Strengths, Exposing and Exploiting the Weaknesses


Index

All interested in the history of economic thought, critique of mainstream economics and promotion of heterodox economics, and interdisciplinarity and the scale and scope of economics imperialism and its critique.
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