Ben Fine

Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of the critical texts, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics (Pluto, 2016), co-author of Marx's 'Capital' (Pluto, 2016) and co-editor of Beyond theDevelopmental State (Pluto, 2013). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009.

Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Visiting Professor, Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published over thirty books (one of which won the Deutscher Prize and another the Myrdal Prize) and three hundred articles. He is the founding Chair of IIPPE (the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy) and has acted as economic advisor to many organisations. He is an acknowledged international authority across fields such as Marxist political economy, history of economic thought, heterodox economics, economics imperialism, social capital, social choice theory, development economics and studies, the British economy and coal industry, consumption studies and South Africa.