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R. Torrens

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Anglo-Irish Royal Marine, economist, and chair of South Australian Colonisation Commission (1780-1864)

Born 1780
Died 1864

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  • Cover of: essay on the external corn trade.

    First published in 1815 6 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition essayonexternalc00torriala Cover of edition essayonexternalc00torrrich Cover of edition anessayonextern03torrgoog
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  • Cover of: On wages and combination

    First published in 1834 5 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition onwagescombinati00torr Cover of edition onwagescombinati00torruoft Cover of edition onwagescombinati0000torr
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  • Cover of: An essay on the production of wealth

    First published in 1821 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Letters on commercial policy.

    First published in 1958 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The principles and practical operation of Sir Robert Peel's bill of 1844 explained and defended against the objections of Tooke, Fullarton and Wilson

    First published in 1848 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The budget: a series of letters on financial, commercial and colonial policy

    First published in 1841 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The victim of intolerance; or, The hermit of Killarney: a Catholic tale ...

    First published in 1814 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The principles and practical operation of Sir Robert Peel's act of 1844, explained and defended: comprising critical examinations of the report of the Lords' committee of 1848, upon national distress, of the novel principles of currency propounded by Mr. Tooke and Mr. Wilson, and of the chapter on the regulation of currency in Mr. J.S. Mill's "Principles of political economy"

    First published in 1858 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A comparative estimate of the effects which a continuance and a removal of the restriction upon cash payments are respectively calculated to produce: with strictures on Mr. Ricardo's proposal for obtaining a secure and economical currency.

    First published in 1819 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A letter to Lord Ashley, on the principles which regulate wages and on the manner and degree in which wages would be reduced

    First published in 1844 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The principles and practical operation of Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844: explained and defended; with additional chapters on money, the gold discoveries, and international exchange; and A critical examination of the chapter On the regulation of a convertible paper currency, in J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy.

    First published in 1857 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Budget: On Commercial and Colonial Policy : with an Introduction in which the Deductive ...

    First published in 1844 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A letter to ... lord viscount Melbourne, on the causes of the recent derangement in the money ...

    First published in 1837 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: An essay on the transfer of land by registration under the duplicate method operative in British colonies

    First published in 1873 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Anglo-Irish Royal Marine, economist, and chair of South Australian Colonisation Commission (1780-1864)

Born 1780
Died 1864
Subjects
Currency question, Wages, Corn laws (Great Britain), Tariff, Banks and banking, Commerce and industries, Commercial policy, Corn laws, Economic policy, Economics, Emigration and immigration, Free trade, Free trade and protection, Grain trade, Hours of labor, Immatriculation et transfert, Industrial Trusts, Land titles, Política económica, Principles of political economy (Mill, John Stuart), Registration and transfer, Titres de propriété, Working class
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Great Britain, Grande-Bretagne
People
James Wilson (1805-1860), John Fullarton (1780?-1849), Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
December 11, 2019 Edited by Camillo Pellizzari merge authors
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
August 22, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import