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Maurice Dobb

Maurice Herbert Dobb (September 3, 1900 - 1976), economist, Lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-76.

Maurice Dobb was an economist who primarily was involved in the interpretation of neoclassical economic theory from a 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