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Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad-Filho

'This expert guide to the political economy of Marx's Capital has always been the very best available' – David HarveyWhether you are a student of economics, a political activist, or merely trying to make sense of a world in upheaval, Marx’s Capital is a beginner’s guide to one of the most influential and eye-opening critiques of capitalism.In today’s world of deep inequality, recurring financial meltdowns, and the climate crisis, understanding Marx’s ideas is more ...

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Zimbell House Publishing, Ben Fine, Cameron Vanderwerf, Garth Pettersen, Gary Ives, Lucy Ann Fiorini, Randi Samuelson-Brown, Sharon Frame Gay, Terry Sanville, E. W. Farnsworth

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.

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Zimbell House Publishing, Edward Ahern, Adam L. Bealby, Sammi Cox, Laura Fanning, E. W. Farnsworth, Ben Fine, Anna Alexander Luetic, Jenean McBrearty, Madeline McEwen, Jeremiah Murphy, Kathleen Murphey, DJ Tyrer, Ryan Warrick, Matthew Wilson, Evelyn M. Zimmer

PAGAN features the novella, The Wiglaf Tales, by E.W. Farnsworth; along with fourteen short stories from some of our new domestic and international writers.Zimbell House Publishing is committed to helping writers become quality authors.

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Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis

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Economics as Social Theory

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 directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through the process termed "economics imperialism". In other words, the book addresses the shifting boun...

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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 degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social theory. The rise and fall of social capital at the World Bank is critically explained as is s...

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Ben Fine, Ourania Dimakou

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Macroeconomics is your guide to how economics shape how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. This distinctive book draws upon years of critical questioning and teaching and exposes how macroeconomic theory has evolved from its origins to its current impoverished and extreme state.Moving from the Keynesian Revolution to the Monetarist Counter-Revolution, through to New Classical Economics and New Consensus Macroeconomics...

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Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad-Filho

'This expert guide to the political economy of Marx's Capital has always been the very best available' - David HarveyThis brilliantly concise book is the classic companion to Karl Marx's most well-known work, Capital. In print now for over a quarter of a century, and translated into many languages, this new edition has been fully revised and updated, making it an ideal modern introduction to one of the most important texts in political and economic thought today.The authors...

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Ben Fine

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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 its historical and interdisciplinary context.From the culmination of 40 years of teaching, research and policy advice on political economy, Ben Fine critically exposes the methodologic...

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The year is 1560, the Inquisition in Madrid has turned on the conversos in Al-Andalus, and the Benzions must flee to their holdings in Palermo.Don Miguel Benzion, a former Captain in the employ of the Duke of Sienna, and the son of a wealthy converso family in Granada, Spain must sell the family business before he is trapped by the inquisition and is forced to flee to Cuba.On the voyage to Cuba, Don Miguel meets the lovely and vivacious Senorita Imelda, who tames this famous ...

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Ben Fine

The year is 1560, the Inquisition in Madrid has turned on the conversos in Al-Andalus, and the Benzions must flee to their holdings in Palermo.Don Miguel Benzion, a former Captain in the employ of the Duke of Sienna, and the son of a wealthy converso family in Granada, Spain must sell the family business before he is trapped by the inquisition and is forced to flee to Cuba.On the voyage to Cuba, Don Miguel meets the lovely and vivacious Senorita Imelda, who tames this famous ...

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Ben Fine

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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy

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 or education in the same way that they would machinery or transport.Ben Fine's main argument in this book is that such concers cannot be judged in terms of mathematical m...

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Routledge Revivals

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices. The collection brings together major contributions on the value theory debate from the decade prior to the book’s publication, and assesses the debate’s significance for wider issues. Value theory emerges as much more than a technical relation between labour time and prices, and the structure of the capitalist economy...