http://alex-k.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] alex-k.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gr_s 2005-05-06 05:16 pm (UTC)

Background and Training of Parliamentary Economists (1780-1868)

Robert Torrens, the colonel of Marines who did his early economic writing as a relief from the boredom of garrison life, and
Perronet Thompson, the army officer, who read Adam Smith in preparation for his duties as governor of the new colony ot Sierra Leone, Joseph Hume, trained as a physician, who acquired a small fortune in the service of the East India Company before entering politics,
David Ricardo, the stockbroker who, having first made money beyond the dreams of avarice, under prodding from James Mill found more satisfaction in trying to explain how nations got rich than in making himself still ncher, his nephew
John Lewis Ricardo, financier and business promoter,
Henry Parnell, the Irish country gentlemen and
Thomas Spung Rice, the Scottish country gentleman and
agricultural reformer Sinclair,
the lawyers Brougham, Horner, George Pryme, and Isaac Butt,
the bankers Thornton, Matthias and Thomas Attwood, Alexander and Francis Baring, George Grote, Samuel Jones Loyd, and George Goschen,
the clergymen Edward Copleston and Richard Whately,
John Stuart Mill, philosopher and civil servant,
Scrope, geologist and philanthropically minded country gentleman,
the journalists William Cobbett and James Wilson,
the businessmen Kirkman Finlay, John Fielden, James Morrison, Muntz, and Richard Cobden,
young members of the nobility such as Lord King, Lord Howick (later 3d Earl Grey), and Lord Henry Petty (later 3d Marquess of Lansdowne), influenced by the ideas of Adam Smith and the philosophy of the Enlightenment,
the Scottish lawyer and country gentleman the Earl of Cauderdale, whom the Dictionary of National Biography describes as "a violent-tempered, shrewd, eccentric man, with a fluent tongue, a broad Scottish accent, and a taste for political economy," and whose wide-ranging activities included fighting a duel with Benedict Arnold
Four were directors of the Bank of England Alexander Baring, Thomson Hankey, John Gellibrand Hubbard, and Geoige Goschen.

[Frank Whinston Fetter, The Economist in Parliament: 1780-1868. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1980. P. 9]

P.S. Вообще-то Феттер насчитал их 62, но Background and Training приводит только для этих.

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