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Rev. James Edwin Thorold Rogers, 1823-1890.

English historicist and clergyman, trained at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained his B.A. in 1846 and M.A. in 1848.  After being ordained in the Church of England, he remained afterwards as curate and tutor in Oxford for the next twelve years. 

In 1859, Thorold Rogers was appointed as the first Tooke Professor of Economics and Statistics at King's College London, a post which he would retain for the remainder of his life.  In 1862-67 period, he held a simultaneous appointment as Drummond Professor of Economics at Oxford University. 

Although a defender of laissez-faire liberalism, Thorold Rogers's attacks on the abstractionism of Classicals in several polemical pieces which almost ruined him professionally.  His loss of the Drummond professorship in 1868 was probably due to this.  However, his scholarly reputation was restored with the appearance of his greatest work -- a massive, eight-volume quantitative analysis of prices that appeared in several installments from 1866 to 1902.  This was truly the great lodestone of the English Historical School, although his 1884 treatise was perhaps more popular.

In 1888, Rogers recovered the Drummond Professorship at Oxford. Ironically, upon his death, Rogers was succeeded by the most abstract of abstract economists, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.

 

  


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Major Works of James E. Thorold Rogers

  • "First Course of Lectures by the Tooke Professor and King's College London", 1859, JSS of London,  p.506
  • "Facts and Observations on Wages and Prices in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", 1861, JSS of London, p.535
  • Education in Oxford: its methods, its aids and its rewards, 1861 [bk]
  • Letters of J.E. Thorold Rogers and Mr. Henry Tupper, on the history and working of the laws of primogeniture and entail in their moral, social and political aspects. 1864 [bk]
  • "On a Continuous Price of Wheat for 105 Years, from 1380 to 1484", 1864, JSS of London, p.70
  • "On the Statistical and Fiscal  Definitions of the word 'Income'", 1865, JSS of London, p.242
  • "Opening Address of the President of Section F of the BAAS ", 1866, JSS of London,  p.493
  • "England Before and After the Black Death", 1866, Fortnightly Review, p.191
  • "The Peasant's War of 1381", 1866, Fortnightly Review, p.90
  • History of Agriculture and Prices in England, from the year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the commencement of the Continental War (1793), compiled entirely from original and contemporaneous records, seven/eight volumes, 1866-1902.
  • "On the Funds Available for Developing the Machinery of Education in England", 1867, JSS of London, p.557
  • A Manual of Political Economy for Schools, 1868 [bk] [1869 2nd ed; 1875 3rd ed]
  • Historical Gleaning: A series of sketches, Wiklif. Laud. Wilkes. Horne Tooke. 1870 [bk]
  • "On the Incidence of Local Taxation", 1870, JSS of London,  p.243
  • (Editor with J. Bright) Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, 1870  v.1, v.2 [1878 ed, 1880 ed]  [Lib]
  • ["A Graduate"] Paul of Tarsus, an inquiry into the times and the gospel of the apostle of the gentiles, 1872 [bk]
  • Social Economy, 1871 [1872 ed; 1885 repr]
  • (Editor) A Complete collection of the Protests of the Lords, 1875
  • Epistles, Satires and Epigrams, 1876 [bk]
  • "Causes of Commercial Depression", 1879, Princeton Review [moa]
  • "Labor and Wages in England", 1879, Princeton Review [moa]
  • (Editor) Public Addresses by John Bright, 1879 [bk]
  • (Translator) A Translation of such documents as are untranslated in Dr. Stubbs' Select charters from the earliest times to the conclusion of Edward the First's reign, 1882 [bk]
  • [Anon] Rabbi Jeshua: an eastern story, 1884 [bk]
  • [Anon] Bible Folk-Lore: a study in comparative mythology, 1884 [bk]
  • Six Centuries of Work and Wages: the history of English labour, 1884, v.1 & 2, [1906 ed]  [McM: pdf]
  • Eight Chapters in the History of Work and Wages, 1885 [bk], [1894 ed]
  • The British Citizen: His rights and privileges, a short history, 1885 [bk]
  • The First Nine Years of the Bank of England: An enquiry into a weekly record of the price of bank stock from August 17,1694 to September 17, 1703, 1887 [bk]
  • Holland, 1888 [bk] [1902 ed]
  • The Economic Interpretation of History, 1888 [bk].
  • The Relations of Economic Science to Social and Political Action, 1888. [bk]
  • (Editor) Joseph Rogers, MD: Reminisces of a workhouse medical doctor, 1889: [bk]
  • Oxford City Documents, financial and judicial, 1268-1665, 1891 [bk]
  • "Lessons from the Dutch Republic", 1891, National Life and Thought of the various nations of the world,  p.237
  • The Industrial and Commercial History of England, 1892. [bk]

 


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Resources on J. E. Thorold Rogers

  • "Die wirthschaftliche Lage des englischen Arbeiterstandes im 14. Jahrhundert" by Gustav Cohn, 1868, Historische Zeitschrift, p347 [js] [av]
  • "Die soziale Entwickelung Deutschlands und Englands hauptsächlich auf dem platten Lande des Mittelalters", by Gustav von Schmoller,  1888, SchmJGVV (v.12), p.203 (review of Thorold Rogers and Lamprecht)
  • "Review of Thorold Rogers's History of Agriculture and Prices" by HL Osgood, 1888, PSQ (Sep)  p.526 [js]
  • "James E. Thorold Rogers", by William J. Ashley, 1889, PSQ (Sep) p.381 [js] [av]
  • "Thorold Rogers", by H. de B. Gibbins 1890, Westminster Review
  • "Review of Thorold Rogers's Oxford City Documents ", by C. Gross, 1892, PSQ (Mar), p.176 [js]
  • "Review of Thorold Rogers' Industrial and Commercial History",  by Sidney Sherwood, 1893, AAPSS (Sep),  p.130 [js]
  • "Rogers, J.E. Thorold"  in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894-1899, Dictionary of Political Economy [1918 ed.]
  • "Rogers, J.E. Thorold" in Leslie Stephen & Stephen Lee, editor, 1885-1901 Dictionary of National Biography [1908-09 ed]
  • "Thorold Rogers" in Justin McCarthy, 1902, Portraits of the Sixties, p.371
  • "Rogers, J.E. Thorold" in 1911 Britannica
  • Thorold Rogers page at McMaster
  • Thorold Rogers profile at LibertyFund
  • Wikipedia

 

 

 
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