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Hobson was born on 6 July 1858 in Derby, the son of William Hobson, "a rather prosperous newspaper proprietor", and Josephine Atkinson. He was the brother of the mathematician Ernest William Hobson.
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economist reformer social scientist
Hobson was born on 6 July 1858 in Derby, the son of William Hobson, "a rather prosperous newspaper proprietor", and Josephine Atkinson. He was the brother of the mathematician Ernest William Hobson.
He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and was an extension lecturer at Oxford and London universities from 1887 to 1897.
He earned his living therefore through part-time lecturing, journalism, and writing too many books.
Thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to writing.
He was associated with The Speaker, its successor The Nation, and in daily journalism with the Manchester Guardian.
Hobson was primarily a social reformer who became an economist to seek a solution to the problem of poverty.
Later he dedicated himself to the cause of internationalism.
If this process were in any way interrupted, he contended, there would be crises in the more advanced countries.
The Industrial System (1909) and Work and Wealth (1914) are perhaps the most important.
Hobson's books ranged over a variety of topics from imperialism to the reform of the tax system and furnished material for other reformers of his time.
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In 1919 Hobson joined the Independent Labour Party.
He also contributed importantly to contemporary politics, especially the evolution of a ‘New’ kind of Liberalism around 1900 to replace the old.