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Walter Bagehot,  1826-1877

Walter Bagehot

English journalist, closely associated with the English institutionalist-historicist tradition, One of the early editors of the famous and influential "Manchester School" newspaper The Economist.  Bagehot was not avidly opposed to contemporary Classical economics, but he stressed the need for more institutional content - especially cultural and social factors. He was one of the first economists to discuss the concept of the business cycle.

In his most famous book, Lombard Street (1873), Bagehot introduced a distinct theory of central banking.

After Bagehot's death in 1877, The Economist was taken over jointly by the banking expert R.H. Inglis Palgrave and journalist Daniel Conner Lathbury, pipping out its first choice of successor, Robert Giffen, who went on to found the rival The Statist.

 

  

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Major Works of Walter Bagehot

  • "Review of Mill's Principles of Political Economy", 1848, Prospective Review [McM]
  • "The First Edinburgh Reviewers", 1855, National Review (Oct), p.253 [reprinted in 1858, p.1; reprint in 1879, v.1, p.1]
  • Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen, 1858 [bk]
  • "The English Constitution",  V, VI, VII, VIII, 1866, Fortnightly Review
  • The English Constitution, 1867. [moa]
  • "Henry Crabb Robinson", 1869, Fortnightly Review, p.179
  • "Bad Lawyers or Good?", 1870, Fortnightly Review, p.685
  • "Senior's Journals", 1871, Fortnightly Review, p.156
  • "Physics and Politics", pt.3 (1869), pt. 4 (1871), Conclusion (1872), 1871-72, Fortnightly Review
  • "On the Emotion of Conviction", 1871, Contemporary Review, p.32
  • Physics and Politics, 1872 (zip)
  • Lombard Street: A description of the money market. 1873, [1878 7th ed, 1892 10th ed., 1896 Johnstone ed], [American reprints: 1873, 1874, 1877, 1897, 1902, 1906, 1910, 1912, 1920] [McM]
  • "Metaphysical Basis of Toleration", 1874, Contemporary Rev, p.765
  • "A New Standard of Value", 1875, The Economist [McM]
  • "Postulates of English Political Economy", pt.1, pt.2, 1876, Fortnightly Review
  • "Adam Smith as a Person", 1876, Fortnightly Review, p.18
  • "Lord Althorpe and the Reform Act of 1832", 1876, Fortnightly Review, p.573
  • Literary Studies, (R.H. Hutton, editor), 1879. v.1 [1910 ed., v.1
  • Economic Studies , 1880.
  • Biographical Studies, 1881.
  • The Postulates of English Political Economy, 1885 [bk]. [lib]
  • The Works of Walter Bagehot, 1889.
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