Ben Fine (SOAS)

This podcast is a recording of the Third SOAS Economics Alumni Lecture on " Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective".

Ben Fine can draw upon fifty years as an academic economist, whether as student, researcher or policy advisor. Unintimidated by the increasing technical wizardry of mainstream economics, he will use his experience and experiences to expose the truths, half-truths and untruths of the dismal science to question whether the discipline might appropriately be seen as a precocious if shifting purveyor of what has come to be known as post-truth.

Speaker biography:

Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London. He has (co)authored or edited over thirty books and published over 250 articles covering a wide range of economic theory, economic and social policy, development economics, political economy and the history of economic thought, with a strong intellectual commitment to interdisciplinarity. Different books were awarded the Gunnar Myrdal and Deutscher Memorial Prizes. Ben served as a founding member of the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency and chaired the Working Group on Reform of Slaughterhouse Controls. He was an expert witness at the Sizewell B Nuclear Power Inquiry, and served as one of four international expert advisors on President Mandela’s 1995/96 South African Labour Market Commission. He was Research Editor at the Industry and Employment Branch of the Greater London Council, and has advised UNDP, UNRISD, UNDESA, UNCTAD, Oxfam and other progressive organisations including trade unions and civil society organisations. He is Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy.

Speakers: Ben Fine (SOAS)

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