Famous english authors and their books
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For more biographies of famous economists, see the Biographies section in the The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)
Walter Bagehot, a British journalist and early editor of “The Economist,” specialized in institutional economic issues. He had a particular interest in central banks, interest rates, and the money supply. His writings on how monetary institutions (today called Central Banks) behave and why, and how they interact with “credit cycles” (today called business cycles) influenced later institutions from the Federal Reserve System to the International Monetary Fund.
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Bastable, Charles F. (1855-1945)
Charles Francis Bastable, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Dublin, was a proponent of free trade. His works included expositions on international trade and clarifications of Ricardo’s and Mill’s ideas. His classic text, Public Finance, first published in 1892, remains the basis for modern textbook coverage of government taxation, debt, and expenditure, and budgeting.
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