John A. Hobson : Critical Assessments of Leading Economists

ISBN-13: 9780415310659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 1168 str.

John C. Wood; John Cunningham Wood

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John Atkinson Hobson was a controversial figure in the history of economic thought. As an advocate of an apparently fallacious theory of over-saving, a critic of the orthodox theory of distribution, and a proponent of a theory of imperialism which was later taken up by Lenin, Hobson was generally condemned as a heretic by the rest of the economic establishment.
His fortunes changed, rather belatedly, in 1936, when Keynes paid tribute to Hobson's work in "The General Theory" as anticipating his own theory that society can, under some circumstances, save too large a proportion of its income--thrift then being a vice, not a virtue.
Hobson's influence was international and the impact of his writings was widespread. This collection reprints the essential scholarship on Hobson's economic, social and political thought, with helpful introductions which provide the reader with guidance and context.

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Volume I Section 1: John A. Hobson: Life and Times Volume II Section 2: Hobson's Imperialism Volume III
Section 3: Hobson's Economic, Social and Political Thought Section 4: Review of Hobson's Books