A history of Dobb's Wages.

Maurice Dobb's Wages , a short textbook-style work commissioned by John Maynard Keynes for the Cambridge Economic Handbooks series, was first published in 1928. It went through six revised editions by 1959, along with numerous reprints and translations up to the 1980s. This paper analyses the evolut...

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Publicado en:Cambridge Journal of Economics Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 457 - 474
Autores principales: Allisson, François, Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA May2026
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