TY - BOOK ID - 142832660 TI - Reappraising J.A. Hobson : humanism and welfare PY - 2009 SN - 1135191549 1282283413 9786612283413 0203092333 PB - London, UK ; Boston, USA : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - History. KW - Hobson, J. A. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142832660 AB - J. A. Hobson was one of the most influential social, economic and political theorists of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. In this volume, first published in 1990, eight scholars reassess the importance and relevance of his work today and affirm him as a major British thinker.These original studies place Hobson in context by explaining his intellectual antecedents: Cobden, Ruskin, nineteenth-century social and psychological theories and economic thought. The book provides an overview of the novelty and incisiveness of Hobson's contribution to British liberal theor ER -