Keynes and Marx Reconsidered: The Case of Maurice Dobb

Abstract

ABSTRACT After an introduction outlining the issues at stake in the study of Dobb's intellectual relationship to Keynes, I begin with a (necessarily brief) account of Keynes's attitude towards Dobb. I then discuss the much more extensive evidence concerning Dobb's reaction to Keynes, published and unpublished, in three sections that terminate respectively with the death of Keynes (in 1946), with the writing of Dobb's autobiographical notes (in 1965), and with his own death (in 1977). A brief conclusion draws some inferences on what Dobb's career can tell us about the broader relationship between Marxian and Keynesian economics.