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    Robert Torrens FRS (1780 – 27 May 1864) was a Royal Marines officer, political economist, part-owner of the influential Globe newspaper, and a prolific...
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  • Robert Torrens may refer to: Robert Torrens (judge) (1775–1856), Irish judge Robert Torrens (economist) (1780–1864), Irish economist and Royal Marines...
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    House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. He was son of the political economist Robert Torrens, who was chairman of the London-based South Australian Colonisation...
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  • Torrens is the surname of: Alba Torrens (born 1989), Spanish basketball player Albert Torrens (born 1976), Australian rugby league footballer Attwood...
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  • intermarry, so that the Torrens family tree can be difficult to untangle. The judge should not be confused with Robert Torrens, the economist, who was his first...
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    Zealand, and Suzhou, China. Torrens University Australia, along with Think Education and Media Design School, together form Torrens Global Education, which...
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    repealed and replaced by the Real Property Act 1886. Robert Richard Torrens, son of Robert Torrens (economist and chairman of the South Australian Colonisation...
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  • on economics Robert Torrens (1780–1864), Irish/English political economist and writer Robert M. Townsend (born 1948), American economist and academic...
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    Major-General Sir Henry Torrens KCB (1779 – 23 August 1828) was an Adjutant-General to the Forces. Torrens was born in Derry, Ireland in 1779. He was the...
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    Irish-born economist and chairman of the South Australian Colonisation Commission, Robert Torrens. Torrensville is in the City of West Torrens local government...
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    principles were adopted by Robert Peel and embodied in the Act of 1844, were represented by Samuel Jones Loyd, Robert Torrens, and George Warde Norman....
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    use: the Torrens Building in Victoria Square as the Adelaide campus for Carnegie Mellon University, University College London, and Torrens University;...
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    Lionel Robbins (category British economists)
    Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy, 1952. Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics, 1958. Politics and Economics...
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  • Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and Robert Torrens, because there were not any professional associations for free trade economists to peer-review their work. Despite...
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  • earlier version of the concept can be traced back to the English economist Robert Torrens and his book The Budget: On Commercial and Colonial Policy, published...
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  • Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (d. 1880) 1814 – Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (d...
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    productive." In 1815, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, Edward West, and Robert Torrens applied the concept of diminishing returns to land rent. These works...
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    delinquency rose from around 15% in 2000 to over 35% in 2007 and 2008. Economist Robert Shiller argued that speculative bubbles are fueled by "contagious optimism...
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    (1903–1983), economist Richard Stone (1913–1991), Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Torrens (1780–1864), army officer and economist Philip Wicksteed...
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  • Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Torrens, Robert (1808). The Economists Refuted and Other Early Economic Writings (1984 ed.). New...
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  • the original on 22 January 2007. Whaples, Robert (2006). "Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes!". The Economists' Voice. 3 (9). doi:10.2202/1553-3832.1156...
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    Richard Syron concluded, "We had a bubble", and concurred with Yale economist Robert Shiller's warning that home prices appear overvalued and that the correction...
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  • later oppose the currency school, while one of its leading theorists - Robert Torrens - had earlier been an anti-bullionist. Following the Napoleonic War...
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    Nassau William Senior Edward Gibbon Wakefield John Rae Thomas Tooke Robert Torrens The American School owes its origin to the writings and economic policies...
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  • complications from a foot ulcer. Matt Rendell, 64, Australian footballer (West Torrens, Fitzroy, Brisbane), heart attack. Kenneth Riegel, 85, American opera tenor...
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  • will decrease the demand for goods. This view was expressed both by Robert Torrens[citation needed] and John Stuart Mill.[citation needed] This would lead...
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  • Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1887) 1812 – Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (d. 1884)...
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  • 000 by 1806.[citation needed] In 1817, David Ricardo, James Mill and Robert Torrens, in the famous theory of comparative advantage, argued that free trade...
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    Edward Gibbon Wakefield (category Classical economists)
    affairs. In 1831, having impressed John Stuart Mill, Robert Torrens and other leading economists with the value of his ideas, Wakefield became involved...
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  • actual prices on a set of demand and/or supply variables. American economist Robert Shiller of the Case–Shiller Home Price Index of home prices in 20 metro...
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