Author:Robert Torrens

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Robert Torrens (1780–1864)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. Colonel in Royal Marines, of Irish extraction; political economist, MP, owner of the influential Globe newspaper and prolific writer, father of the politician Robert Richard Torrens

Works

• The Economists Refuted, 1808
• Celibia Choosing a Husband (1809), a novel
• An Essay on Money and Paper Currency, 1812.
• An Essay on the External Corn Trade, 1815.
• An Essay on the Production of Wealth, 1821.
• Letters on Commercial Policy, 1833.
• On Wages and Combination, 1834.
• The Principles and Practical Operation of Sir Robert Peel's Bill of 1844, 1844.
• Tracts on Finance and Trade, 1852.

Works about Torrens

• “Torrens, Robert,” in A Compendium of Irish Biography by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878).
• “Torrens, Robert,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.

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