Maurice Dobb Political Economist

by Shenk, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9781137297013
• ISBN10: 1137297018
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Even Maurice Dobb's critics, and there were many, acknowledged that he was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his outpost at the University of Cambridge, where he was a protégé of John Maynard Keynes and mentor to students ranging from Eric Hobsbawm to Amartya Sen, Dobb made himself into one of British communism's premier intellectuals. Until now, this remarkable life has been all but forgotten. Yet following Dobb's life from his birth in 1900 to his death in 1976 does more than just recover the career of one of modern Britain's most paradoxical thinkers. It reveals a surprising history that casts new light on the connections that bound economics, politics, and power together in the twentieth century—a history whose legacy still endures, long after the Soviet Union's fall.

Author Biography

Timothy Shenk is a graduate student in History at Columbia University, USA, where he received a Jacob K. Javits fellowship. Before coming to Columbia, Shenk spent two years at Cambridge University, where he was funded by the Euretta J. Kellett fellowship. At Cambridge, he was the Prize Research Student at the Centre for History and Economics and winner of a Mellon Prize Research Grant. Before arriving at Cambridge, he taught an introductory economics course in Union College's summer program. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Communist Party Economist 
1. The Making of a Marxist 
2. An Unfinished Page 
3. Captain of His Earth 
4. Marxism Today 
5. Developments 
6. Debates 
7. Poznan Mementos 
8. In Transition
Conclusion: At Trinity Chapel, And After