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Biography of Maurice Dobb - Economist
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Maurice Herbert Dobb (September 3, 1900 - 1976), economist, Lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-1976. Maurice Dobb was an economist who primarily was involved in the interpretation of neoclassical economic theory from a Marxism|Marxist point of view. While neither Maurice Dobb nor any other Cambridge don was involved in actual recruitment to the KGB he did have a part to play in the case histories of Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and other members of the 'Ring of Five' British traitors, by his promotion, amongst Cambridge undergraduates, of Soviet-style Communism. == Publications == * Capitalist Enterprise and Social Progress, 1925. * Russian Economic Development since the Revolution, 1928 * Wages, 1928 * "Economic Theory and the Problems of a Socialist Economy", 1933, EJ. * Political Economy and Capitalism: Some essays in economic tradition, 1937 * Marx as an Economist, 1943 * Studies in the Development of Capitalism, 1946 * Soviet Economic Development Since 1917, 1948 * Some Aspects of Economic Development, 1951 * On Economic Theory and Socialism, 1955 * An Essay on Economic Growth and Planning, 1960 * Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning, 1967 * Welfare Economics and the Economics of Socialism, 1969 * "The Sraffa System and Critique of the Neoclassical Theory of Distribution", 1970, De Economist * Socialist Planning: Some problems. 1970 * Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam Smith, 1973. * "Some Historical Reflections on Planning and the Market", 1974, in Abramsky, editor, Essays in Honour of E.H.Carr == External links == * http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGB R%2F0016%2FDOBB Papers of Maurice Herbert Dobb

