Economista marxista britânico, Dobb estudou em Charterhouse e Cambridge. Foi docente na Universidade de Cambridge e membro do corpo do Trinity College. Estudou a economia soviética e trabalhou com Piero Sraffa na análise da teoria econômica de David Ricardo.
Obras
Capitalist Enterprise and Social Progress, 1925.
Russian Economic Development since the Revolution, 1928
Wages, 1928
"Economic Theory and the Problems of a Socialist Economy", 1933, EJ.
Political Economy and Capitalism: Some essays in economic tradition, 1937
Marx as an Economist, 1943
Studies in the Development of Capitalism, 1946
Soviet Economic Development Since 1917, 1948
Some Aspects of Economic Development, 1951
On Economic Theory and Socialism, 1955
An Essay on Economic Growth and Planning, 1960.
Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning, 1967
Welfare Economics and the Economics of Socialism, 1969
"The Sraffa System and Critique of the Neoclassical Theory of Distribution", 1970, The Economist
Socialist Planning: Some problems. 1970
Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam Smith, 1973.
"Some Historical Reflections on Planning and the Market", 1974, en Abramsky, editor, Essays in Honour of E.H.Carr