Ronald L. Meek

Ronald Lindley Meek ( born July 27, 1917 in Wellington, New Zealand, † August 18, 1978 ) was a Marxist -influenced political economist and sociologist who is best known for his studies of the classical political economy and the labor theory of value.

Meek was born in Wellington, where he visited the school and from the mid- 1930s, first the right and then studied economics at Victoria University of Wellington. At this time he began an interest in the theories of Karl Marx and left politics to develop. His first major font of 1943 was devoted to the Maori problem Today, which have been neglected by the Communist Party of New Zealand. 1946 Meek went to Cambridge, England, where he began his doctoral studies under Piero Sraffa and Maurice Dobb. In 1948 he went to Glasgow, Scotland, where he was a lecturer in political economy at the University and in 1949 his PhD thesis finished (The development of the concept of surplus in economic thought from Mun to Mill ). His first major work, Studies in the Labour Theory of Value, published in 1956. In the same year he left the Communist Party of Great Britain due to the controversies surrounding Stalinism. In 1963 he went to the University of Leicester. Meek has published numerous books and articles on classical political economy, Marxist Economic Theory and Sraffa's economic theory, as well as in other subject areas.

Works

  • Studies in the laboratory Theory of Value, 1956
  • The Economics of Physiocracy: Essays and Translations, 1962
  • Hill -walking in Arran, 1963
  • The rise and fall of the concept of the economic machine, 1965
  • Economics and Ideology and Other Essays, 1967
  • Marx and Engels on the population bomb (selection of writings of Marx and Engels on Malthus. Ed. Ronald L. Meek. Translation by Dorothea L. Meek and Ronald L. Meek ), 1971
  • Figuring out society, 1971
  • Quesnay 's Tableau Economique, 1972 (, it Margaret Kuczynski )
  • Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics, 1973
  • Precursors of Adam Smith, 1973
  • Social Science and the Ignoble Savage, 1976
  • Smith, Marx and After: Ten Essays in the Development of Economic Thought, 1977.
  • Adam Smith: Lectures in Jurisprudence, 1978 ( ed. by DD Raphael & RP stone)
  • Matrices and society (with Ian Bradley). Princeton include Princeton University Press, 1987.

Selected items

  • "The rehabilitation of Ricardo", The Listener, 4 Oct 1951
  • " New Light on the Labour Theory of Value ", The Listener, August 7, 1952
  • The Scottish Contribution to Marxist Sociology ", 1954, in Saville, editor, Democracy and the Labour Movement
  • " Adam Smith and the Classical Concept of Profits", June 1954, Scottish Journal of Political Economy
  • "The Decline of Ricardian Economics in England ", 1950, Economica
  • " Stalin as to Economist ", 1953, RES
  • " Smith, Turgot and the Four Stages Theory", 1971, History of Political Economy in 1971
  • " Marxism and Marginalism ", History of Political Economy in 1972
  • " The Falling Rate of Profit", 1976, in Howard and King, editor, Economics of Marx
  • Economist ( 20th century)
  • Marxist economist
  • New Zealanders
  • Born 1917
  • Died in 1978
  • Man
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