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Meek (1917–1978) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, where he received his early education at both school and university. He went to Cambridge in 1946 to take a PhD under the supervision of Piero Sraffa (1949). Meek was appointed to a Lectureship in Glasgow University in 1948, during A.L. Macfie’s tenure of the Adam Smith Chair.
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1943. Maori Problems Today. Wellington: Progressive Publishing House.
1956. Studies in the Labour Theory of Value. London: Lawrence & Wishart,2nd edn, 1973.
1962. The Economics of Physiocracy: Essays and Translations. London: Allen & Unwin. This volume contains an introduction to the work of the school, and in Part 2 five essays, the first four of which appear in amended form. They are: ‘Problems of the Tableau Economique’ (1960); ‘The Physiocratic Concept of Profit’ (1959); ‘Physiocracy and the Early Theories of Under-Consumption’ (1951); ‘Physiocracy and Clasicism in Britain’ (1951), and ‘The Interpretation of Physiocracy’ (1962).
1963. Hill Walking in Arran. Isle of Arran Tourist Association. 2nd edn, 1972.
1967. Economics and Ideology and Other Essays: Studies in the Development of Economic Thought, London: Chapman & Hall. This Volume contains 12 essays which appear in amended form. They are: ‘The Rehabilitation of Sir James Steuart’ (1958); ‘Adam Smith and the Classical Concept of Profit’ (1954); ‘The Scottish Contribution to Marxist Sociology’ (1954); ‘The Decline of Ricardian Economics in England’ (1950); ‘Thomas Joplin and the Theory of Interest’ (1950–51); ‘Karl Marx’s Economic Method’ (1959); ‘The Falling Rate of Profit’ (1960); ‘Marx’s Doctrine of Increasing Misery’ (1962); ‘Some Notes on the Transformations Problem’ (1956); ‘Mr. Sraffa’s Rehabilitation of Classical Economics’ (1961); ‘The Place of Keynes in the History of Economic Thought’ (1950–51); ‘Economics and Ideology’ (1957).
1971. Figuring Out Society. London: Collins.
1972. (With M. Kuczynski.) Quesnay’s ‘Tableau Economique’. London: Macmillan.
1973. Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1976. Social Science and the Ignoble Savage. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
1977. Smith, Marx and After: Ten Essays in the Development of Economic Thought. London: Chapman & Hall. This vol. includes: ‘Smith and Marx’ (1977); ‘Smith, Turgot and the Four Stages Theory’ (1971); ‘The Development of Adam Smith’s Ideas on the Division of Labour’ (with A.S. Skinner, 1973); ‘New Light on Adam Smith’s Glasgow Lectures on Jurisprudence’ (1976); ‘A Plain Person’s Guide to the Transformation Problem’ (1977); ‘From Values to Prices: Was Marx’s Journal Really Necessary?’ (1976); ‘The Historical Transformation Problem’ (1976); ‘Value in the History of Economic Thought’ (1974); ‘Marginalism and Marxism’ (1972); ‘The Rise and Fall of the Concept of the Economic Machine’ (An Inaugural Lecture, 1965).
1978. (With D.D. Raphael and P.G. Stein.) Adam Smith: Lectures on Jurisprudence. Oxford, Clarendon Press; Vol. V in the Glasgow edn of the Works and Correspondence.
A complete bibliography of R.L. Meek’s writing will be found in Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek, ed. I. Bradley and M. Howard, London: Macmillan (1982), xi–xiv; New York: St. Martin’s Press.
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Skinner, A. (1990). Ronald Lindley Meek. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds) Marxian Economics. The New Palgrave. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20572-1_42
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