Working Lives Research Institute
Title:Social Capital
Date: 13th January 2012
Time: 12.30 -2.00pm
Location: 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY- Room JS1-41 (boardroom)
Speaker: Professor Ben Fine
Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
His recent books include ‘From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory’, which was awarded the 2009 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and ‘From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences’, awarded the 2009 Deutscher Prize and both written with Dimitris Milonakis.
For this Working Lives Research Institute Seminar he will be drawing on his 2010 book ‘Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly’ (Pluto Press) In the words of Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University "Ben Fine is the world’s most thorough and indefatigable critic of the abuse of the concept of capital that follows from adding ‘social’ - and other adjectives - to it‘
This event is free, open to all and there is no need to register.