British economist
Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827,Doncaster – 1875,Frognal ) was an Englisheconomist andstatistician .
Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and atTrinity College ,Cambridge University .[ 1] law and entered his father's firm of Baxter & Co.,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]
His principal economic writings were:
The Budget and the Income Tax , 1860Railway Extension and its Results , 1866The Panic of 1866; With its Lessons on the Currency Act , 1866The National Income , 1868The Taxation of the United Kingdom , 1869National Debts of the World , 1871Local Government and Taxation , 1874His purely political writings included:
The Volunteer Movement , 1860The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties , 1866History of English Parties and Conservatism , 1870The Political Progress of the Working Classes , 1871public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Baxter, Robert Dudley ".Encyclopædia Britannica Walford, Cornelius (1885)."Baxter, Robert Dudley" Stephen, Leslie (ed.).Dictionary of National Biography Feuchtwanger, E. J. "Baxter, Robert Dudley (1827–1875)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/1735 . (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baxter, Robert Dudley".Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.