Freeden - Reappraising J.A. Hobson

John Allett is an Associate Professor at York University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of New Liberalism: The Political Economy of J.A. Hobson and several articles on Hobson. He is currently preparing a comparative study of H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw.

Roger E. Backhouse is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham. His publications include Macroeconomics and the British Economy (Basil Blackwell, 1983), A History of Modern Economic Analysis (Basil Blackwell, 1985) and Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas, 1600 to the Present Day (Basil Blackwell, 1988), as well as scholarly articles. He is Review Editor of the Economic Journal.

P.J. Cain is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Birmingham. He has written extensively on Hobsons theory of economic imperialism and is interested more generally in the relationship between British financial power and imperial activity in the period 18701945. He is currently finishing a book on the subject which is being co-written with Professor A.G. Hopkins.

Peter Clarke is a Fellow of St Johns College and Reader in Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Lancashire and the New Liberalism (Cambridge, 1971). In Liberals and Social Democrats (Cambridge, 1978) the work of Hobson was a major theme and some consideration was given to its relationship to that of Keynes. His recent book, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 192436 (Oxford, 1988) offers a historians perspective upon contested issues concerning Keynes and Keynesianism.

Michael Freeden is a Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. His publications include The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (Oxford, 1978); Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Thought 19141939 (Oxford, 1986); J.A. Hobson: A Reader (London, 1988); an edition of Minutes of the Rainbow Circle, 18941924 (Camden Series, London, 1989) and articles on political theory. He is currently working on a comparative study of modern ideologies as a British Academy Research Reader.

Alon Kadish is Senior Lecturer in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Oxford Economists in the Late Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1982), Apostle Arnold: The Life and Death of Arnold Toynbee 18521883 (Duke University Press, 1986), and Historians, Economists, and Economic History (London, 1989). He has also written a number of articles on economic history.

H.C.G. Matthew is a Fellow of St Hughs College, Oxford. He is the author of The Liberal Imperialists: The Ideas and Politics of a Post-Gladstonian lite (Oxford, 1973). Since 1972 he has been editor of The Gladstone Diaries with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence, vols iiixi (Oxford, 197489). He is also the author of Gladstone 18091874 (Oxford, 1986).

Bernard Porter is Reader in History at the University of Hull. His publications include Critics of Empire (Macmillan, 1968); The Lions Share: A Short History of British Imperialism 18501883 (Longman, 2nd edn, 1984); Britain, Europe and the World 18501986 (Allen & Unwin, 2nd edn, 1987); The Origins of the Vigilant State: The London Metropolis Police Special Branch before the First World War