Ronald L. Meek

Ronald Lindley Meek (27 July 1917 – 18 August 1978) was a Marxian economist and social scientist known especially for his scholarly studies of classical political economy and the labour theory of value. During the 1960s and 1970s, his writings were influential in the Western academic discussion about Marx's economic theory.

What still makes Meek's texts interesting today, is that he paid close attention to primary sources and to the history of political economy, pioneered new interpretations, and studied (in the late 1940s and 1950s) with some of the top scholars in the field, including Maurice Dobb and Piero Sraffa. In addition, Meek analyzed the attitudes of philosophers and political economists in the colonial epoch towards indigenous peoples, long before this became a recognized academic pursuit.