William Thomas Thornton

William Thomas Thornton, CB (1813–1880) was an English economist,[1] civil servant[2] and author.[3]

  1. ^ "The early economic writings of William Thomas Thornton" Donoghue,M Fremantle, University of Notre Dame Australia, 2007 (History of Political Economy, 39(2), 209-252. doi: 10.1215/00182702-2007-002)
  2. ^ G. Le G. Norgate, ‘Thornton, William Thomas (1813–1880)’, rev. John Vint, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Dec 2012
  3. ^ Amongst others he wrote Overpopulation and its Remedy, 1845; A Plea for Peasant Proprietors, 1848; Modern Manichaeism, Labour's Utopia, 1857; "On Labour, its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues: its Actual Present and Possible Future", 1869; "Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics", 1873; and "Word for Word from Horace", 1878. British Library web site accessed 17:17 GMT 6 December 2012