From Orthodox to Heterodox Economics and Beyond: How Mainstream Neoclassical Economics Got to Be the Way It Is and How It Needs to Change: Critical . 10 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 363)

Fine, Ben

ISBN 10: 900476139X / ISBN 13: 9789004761391

Published by Brill (edition 1), 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Orthodox to Heterodox Economics and Beyond: How Mainstream Neoclassical Economics Got to Be the Way It Is and How It Needs to Change: Critical . 10 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 363)
• Publisher: Brill (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900476139X
• ISBN 13: 9789004761391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Relative to other social sciences, economics as an academic discipline is at the extremes in its methodology, theory, conceptualisation, methods, and knowledge of and reference to its own history as a discipline. It has also been increasingly intolerant of alternative approaches and negligent of interdisciplinarity other than on its own narrow core principles. This Volume charts how orthodox economics became the way it is, how it is changing, and why it remains unfit for purpose. By contrast, heterodox economics is shown to be vibrant and wide-ranging despite the repressive tolerance exerted by orthodoxy through Americanisation and monopolisation of the discipline.

About the Author

Ben Fine, Ph.D. (1974), London School of Economics, is Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS 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.