Robert Dudley Baxter
Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.
Life
Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at
solicitors, with which he was connected until his death. Though studiously attentive to business, he was enabled, as a member of the Statistical and other learned societies, to accomplish much useful economic work. [2]
Works
His principal economic writings were:
- The Budget and the Income Tax, 1860
- Railway Extension and its Results, 1866
- The Panic of 1866; With its Lessons on the Currency Act, 1866
- The National Income, 1868
- The Taxation of the United Kingdom, 1869
- National Debts of the World, 1871
- Local Government and Taxation, 1874
His purely political writings included:
- The Volunteer Movement, 1860
- The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties, 1866
- History of English Parties and Conservatism, 1870
- The Political Progress of the Working Classes, 1871
Notes
- ^ "Baxter, Robert Dudley (BKSR845RD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baxter, Robert Dudley". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Walford, Cornelius (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Feuchtwanger, E. J. "Baxter, Robert Dudley (1827–1875)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1735. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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