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Charles Francis Bastable, 1855-1945.

Irish classical economist.

Irish-born Charles Francis Bastable was educated at Trinity College Dublin. In 1882, Bastable was appointed to the Whately Chair in Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin (which he would hold until 1932 --  a record length!).  Like J.E. Cairnes before him, Bastable was, simultaneously a professor of jurisprudence at University College Galway  (from 1902, moved his jurisprudence chair to Trinity).   

Charles F. Bastable was international trade theorist and one of the finest (and latest) expositors of Classical Ricardian theory. However, critical of Mill's international payments theory.  Bastable's Public Finance (1892) was, for a while, considered the authoritative (if altogether a little too "legalistic") treatment of the subject.  Generally conservative, Bastable was a proponent of proportional (as opposed to progressive) taxation.

 

  

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Major Works of Charles Francis Bastable

  • An Examination of Some Current Objections to the Study of Political Economy, 1884 [bk]
  • The Theory of International Trade, with some of its applications to economic policy, 1887 [bk][1897 2nd ed, 1903 4th ed]
  • "On Some Applications of the Theory of International Trade", 1889, QJE, p.1-17 [js]
  • The Commerce of Nations, 1891 [bk] [1899 2nd ed., 1904 3rd ed]
  • Public Finance, 1892 [bk]  [1895, 2nd ed; 1903 3rd ed., 1922 repr] [lib]
  • "Ireland's Place in the Financial System of the United Kingdom", 1896, EJ
  • "Money" and "Monetary Conferences", 1911, Encyclopaedia Britannica
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