Hobson, John Atkinson 1858-1940
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1858 · died 1940
John Atkinson Hobson was an English economist and social scientist. Hobson is best known for his writing on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin, and his theory of underconsumption.
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A few letters to Hobson, including one from Herbert Spencer, with a collection of press cuttings, typescripts of papers given to the South Place Ethical Society, and his copies of his published works.
Hobson papers, Hull UL
Notes on a League of Nations, 1915. Bodleian, MS. Eng. Hist. c402.
Correspondents
ALLEN AND UNWIN, letters to and from, 1927-1937, Reading UL
WILLIAM HARBUTT DAWSON, two letters, 1896-1904. Dawson papers, Birmingham UL
JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND, three letters, 1907 -1930.
Bodleian, MSS. Hammond.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, 13 items, 1926-1935.
Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.
HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD, six letters, 1895-1906.
Lloyd papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison.
MACMILLAN, several letters, 1914-1936. BL Add. MS. 55209.
GILBERT MURRAY, 17 letters, 1900-1918. Murray papers, Bodleian.
HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL, 1st Viscount Samuel, two items, 1903. Samuel papers, House of Lords RO
CHARLES PRESTWICH SCOTT, six letters, 1899.
C. P. Scott correspondence, Manchester Guardian Archives, Manchester JRUL
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, three letters, n.d.
Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.
GRAHAM WALLAS, three letters, 1909-1926. Wallas papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Printed Material
HENRY N. BRAILSFORD, The Life-Work of J. A. Hobson (1948).
JOHN ATKINSON HOBSON, Confessions of an Economic Heretic ( London, 1938).
New Palgrave; ODNB; IESS VI 489.