Robert Dudley Baxter
{{Short description|British economist}}
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Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.
Life
Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University.{{acad|id=BKSR845RD|name=Baxter, Robert Dudley}} He studied law and entered his father's firm of Baxter & Co., solicitors, 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. {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
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
Notes
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References
- {{EB1911|wstitle=Baxter, Robert Dudley}}
- {{cite DNB|wstitle=Baxter, Robert Dudley |first=Cornelius|last= Walford|volume=3}}
- {{cite ODNB|first=E. J.|last=Feuchtwanger|title=Baxter, Robert Dudley (1827–1875)|id=1735}}
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