HOB'SON, Jon N ATKINSON ( 1858—). An English educator and author, born at Derby. ]le was educated at Lincoln College. Oxford: from ISSO to ISS7 was classical master in schools at Faversham (Kent) ) and Exeter, and from IsS7 to 1897 was lecturer in English literature and economies for the University Extension Delegacy and the London Society for the Exten sion of University Teaching. From the time of the appearance of his Problems of Porerty (1891, No. 2 in the "Social Questions of To-day" series) lie beeame known as one of the more prominent British economists of the recent school, and a very effective writer. His other publications include: The Physiology of Industry: Being an Exposure of Certain Fallacies in Existing Theorits of Economics (1589; with A. F. .Mtitn lnery) ; The Erolution of Modern (apitalism. (11S94): CoOp•ratire Latour upon the Load, stet Oth. Put•S The Problem of the ti• employed: an Enquiry and an Economic Policy (1s96) John Raskin, Social Reformer (1st's), a very careful and interesting analytical treatise in vindication of 1:akin's lin ma n izat ion of political economy, and containing also valuable accounts of the industrial experiments furthered and directed by Ruskin; 'rite War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects (1900); Thc Economies of Distribution (1901)), an important attempt to reroncile and systematize the various theories of price and value; capitalism Hod ini perialiNtri in South Africa (1900; a monograph reprinted from the Contemporary it'cri4or); The l'sycholoyy of Jingoism (19111); and The Social
.Problent; Life anti Work ( I), in which he deV(.11)1p: socialistic theories to the extent. of maintaining the necessity of the acquisition of monopolies by municipalities, commonwealths. (o• 111111011s. Ile also contributed extensively to tech nical and popular reviews.