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J. A. Hobson (1858–1940)

In: Economic Exiles

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  • J. E. King

    (University of Lancaster)

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Those economic dissidents who rejoice in their status as heretics are few indeed. One such was John Atkinson Hobson, whose early exclusion from academia neither embittered nor silenced him. Towards the end of a long and immensely productive life, which saw the publication of no fewer than fifty-three books in forty-nine years, Hobson wrote his memoirs. Confessions of an Economic Heretic has been described as ‘perhaps the most reticent autobiography ever written’1 and in some ways its title is its most revealing feature, demonstrating that this modest, friendly and cheerful man, now approaching his eightieth birthday, was still proud to proclaim his heterodoxy.2 Ironically, it was at this late stage (Confessions appeared in 1938) that Hobson was closer to the economic mainstream than ever before — or since.

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  • J. E. King, 1988. "J. A. Hobson (1858–1940)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Economic Exiles, chapter 6, pages 109-135, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07743-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07743-4_6
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