Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827,

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– 1875,

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and

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Life

Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at

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. He studied

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and entered his father's firm of Baxter & Co.,

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, 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.

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

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter, Robert Dudley 1827 births 1875 deaths English economists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge