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Bagehot, Walter - băjˈət, 1826–77, English social scientist. After working in his father's banking firm, he edited (1860–77) the Economist (which had been founded by his father-in-law) and helped establish its high reputation as a financial journal. From these activities came his noted study of the English banking system, Lombard Street (1873). Bagehot's classic

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Walter Bagehot » Read Now
by St. Norman John-Stevas. 46 pgs.

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...WRITERS AND THEIR WORK: NO. 160 Walter Bagehot by St. NORMAN JOHN-STEVAS...League by Longmans, Green Co. Walter Bagehot's best-known works, The English...author of a...
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The Spare Chancellor: The Life of Walter Bagehot » Read Now
by Alastair G. Buchan. 287 pgs.

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...WALTER BAGEHOT THE SPARE CHANCELLOR The Life of Walter Bagehot THE SPARE CHANCELLOR The Life of Walter Bagehot Alastair Buchan 1959 CHATTO...
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Bagehot: The English Constitution » Read Now
by Walter Bagehot, Paul Smith. 253 pgs.

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This is a new and highly accessible rendition of one of the classics of English political writing. Paul Smith presents the text of the first (1867) edition of Bagehot's The English Constitution, together with the original conclusion, as well as Bagehot's long introduction to the second edition of...
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This is a new and highly accessible rendition of one of the classics of English political writing. Paul Smith presents the text of the first (1867) edition of Bagehot's The English Constitution, together with the original conclusion, as well as Bagehot's long introduction to the second edition of 1872. All the usual student-friendly features of the Cambridge Texts series are present, including a concise explanatory introduction, select bibliography and brief biographies of key figures, as well as annotation designed to explain to modern readers some of Bagehot's more arcane contemporary allusions.
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Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society » Read Now
by Walter Bagehot. 142 pgs.

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...TO POLITICAL SOCIETY BY WALTER BAGEHOT WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY...PRESS. SPECIAL INTRODUCTION WALTER BAGEHOT was born at Langport, Somersetshire...Wilson, two years...
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A Short History of Political Economy in England, from Adam Smith to Arnold Toynbee (Chap. VI "Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)") » Read Now
by L. L. Price. 204 pgs.

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...Malthus Account of Moral Restraint--Bagehots Criticism--Malthus own Position--Elasticity...A Difficulty of Political Economy--Bagehot as 1 a Man of Business-- and 2...began...
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Politics and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century: An Historical Introduction (Chap. III The Life of Institutions: Maine: Bagehot: Tylor") » Read Now
by John Bowle. 512 pgs.

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...II THE IDEA OF PROGRESS: HERBERT SPENCER: BUCKLE: LECKY 223 III THE LIFE OF INSTITUTIONS: MAINE: BAGEHOT: TYLOR 248 IV NEO-HEGELIAN HUMANISM: T. H. GREEN: F. H. BRADLEY 274...
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The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995 (Chap. 1 "Bagehot's System") » Read Now
by Brian Harrison. 618 pgs.

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Brian Harrison investigates in depth how the British political system has acquired its present form by looking back further than most other historians. This is the first book to provide a detailed explanation of British political evolution.
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The Nature of Literature (Chap. X "Bagehot") » Read Now
by Herbert Read. 386 pgs.

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...some print of himself on his work, or indeed that he must if his work be literature, which is so personal a thing. As Sir Walter Raleigh puts it: "No man can walk abroad...
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British Economy of the Nineteenth Century (Part III: Economic Theories: Bagehot and the Trade Cycle") » Read Now
by W. W. Rostow. 242 pgs.

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...Population for 1791 is roughly calculated at 13-5 million 2.The statistics for industrial production used are those of Walter Hoffmann , " Ein Index der Industriellen...
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Readings in the History of Economic Thought (selections from "Economic Studies" by Walter Bagehot) » Read Now
by S. Howard Patterson. 748 pgs.

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