Robert Dudley Baxter

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Robert Dudley Baxter (1827 - 1875) was an English economist and statistician born in Doncaster. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He studied law and entered his fathers firm of Baxter & Co., solicitors, with which he was connected until his death. Though studiously attentive to business, he was enabled, as a member of the Statistical and other learned societies, to accomplish much useful economic work. His principal economic writings were;

• The Budget and the Income Tax (1860),
• Railway Extension and its Results (1866),
• The National Income (1868),
• The Taxation of the United Kingdom (1869),
• National Debts of the World (1871),
• Local Government and Taxation (1874),

His purely political writings included;

• The Volunteer Movement (1860)
• The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties (1866),
• History of English Parties and Conservatism (1870),
• The Political Progress of the Working Classes (1871).

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