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Ronald L. Meek, 1917-1978.

Marxian economist and historian of economic thought.

Originally from New Zealand, Ronald L. Meek studied at the Cambridge University, where he came under the influence of Piero Sraffa and Maurice H. Dobb.   He subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Glasgow in 1948, and in 1963 moved to the University of Leicester.

Meek is best known for his 1956 re-examination of Classical school economics, and the development of value theory from Smith to Marx.

 

  

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Major Works of Ronald Meek

  • "The Scottish Contribution to Marxist Sociology", 1954, in Saville, editor, Democracy and the Labour Movement
  • "Adam Smith and the Classical Concept of Profits", 195?, Scottish JPE
  • "The Decline of Ricardian Economics in England", 1950, Economica
  • "Physiocracy and early theories of under-consumption", 1951, Economica [pdf]
  • "Stalin as an Economist", 1953, RES
  • Studies in the Labor Theory of Value, 1956 [pdf]
  • Economics of Physiocracy, 1962
  • Economics and Ideology, 1967
  • "Smith, Turgot and the Four Stages Theory", 1971, HOPE
  • "Marxism and Marginalism", 1972, HOPE
  • Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics, 1973
  • Social Science and the Ignoble Savage, 1976
  • "The Falling Rate of Profit", 1976, in Howard and King, editor, Economics of Marx
  • Smith, Marx and After, 1977.

 
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