Thorold Rogers | |
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| Born | 23 March 1823 West Meon, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 14 October 1890 (aged 67) Oxford, England |
| Nationality | English |
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| Field | Political Economy |
| School or tradition | English historical school |
| Alma mater | King's College London University of Oxford |
James Edwin Thorold Rogers (23 March 1823 – 14 October 1890), known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyse some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England. As an advocate of free trade and social justice, he distinguished himself from some others within the English Historical School.[1][2]
- ^ [1] Archived 17 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thorold Rogers, The Economic Interpretation of History: Lectures Delivered at Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8 (1891).