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R. Torrens

Born: 1780

Died: 1864

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Born: 1780

Died: 1864

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An essay on the external corn trade.

1815

On wages and combination

1834

An essay on the production of wealth

1821

The victim of intolerance; or, The hermit of Killarney: a Catholic tale ...

1814

An essay on the external corn trade.

1815

An essay on the influence of the external corn trade upon the production and distribution of national wealth containing an inquiry into the general principles of that important branch of traffic : an examination of the exceptions to which these principles are liable : and a comparative statement of the effects which restrictions on importation and free intercourse, are respectively calculated to produce upon subsistence, agriculture, commerce, and revenue

1820

An essay on the production of wealth: with an appendix in which the principles of political economy are applied to the actual circumstances of this country.

1821

An essay on the external corn trade

1826

Substance of a speech delivered ... in the House of Commons, 15th February, 1827: on the motion of Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, bart., for the re-appointment of a select committee on emigration from the United Kingdom.

1827

Colonization of South Australia.

1835

A letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne on the causes of the recent derangement in the money market, and on bank reform

1837

The budget: a series of letters on financial, commercial and colonial policy

1841

A letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M.P. ... on the condition of England and on the means of removing the causes of distress

1843

R. Torrens, Robert Peel

An inquiry into the practical working of the proposed arrangements for the renewal of the charter of the Bank of England, and the regulation of the currency with a refutation of the fallacies advanced by Mr. Tooke : to which is added, a reply to the objections of the Westminster review to the government plan for the regulation of the currency

1844

The budget On commercial and colonial policy. With an introduction, in which the deductive method, as presented in Mr. Mill's System of logic, is applied to the solution of some controverted questions in political economy

1844

The principles and practical operation of Sir Robert Peel's bill of 1844 explained and defended against the objections of Tooke, Fullarton and Wilson

1848

Political economy and representative government in Australia

1855

The principles and practical operation of Sir Robert Peel's act of 1844, explained and defended comprising critical examinations of the report of the Lords' committee of 1848, upon national distress, of the novel principles of currency propounded by Mr. Tooke and Mr. Wilson, and of the chapter on the regulation of currency in Mr. J.S. Mill's "Principles of political economy"

1858

Letters on commercial policy.

1958

The economists refuted: or, an inquiry into the nature and extent of the advantages derived from trade : with observations on the expediency of making peace with France : And an appendix, discussing the policy of prohibiting corn in the distilleries

1808

The economists refuted: or, An inquiry into the nature and extent of the advantages derived from trade.

1808

An essay on money and paper currency.

1812

The Victim Of Intolerance or the Hermit Of Killarney

1814

A letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Liverpool, on the state of the agriculture of the United Kingdom and on the means of relieving the present distress of the farmer, and of securing him against the recurrence of similar embarrassment

1816

A paper on the means of reducing the poors rates, and of affording effectual and permanent relief to the labouring classes presented to the chairman of the Committee on the Poor Laws

1817

A Comparative Estimate of the Effects which a Continuance and a Removal of ...

1819

A comparative estimate of the effects which a continuance and a removal of the restriction upon cash payments are respectively calculated to produce: with strictures on Mr. Ricardo's proposal for obtaining a secure and economical currency.

1819

Observations on the critique contained in the Edinburgh review for October 1819, of Mr. Owen's plans for relieving the national distress

1819

Substance of a speech delivered by Colonel Torrens, in the House of Commons, 15th February, 1827, on the motion of the Right Hon. Robert Wilmot Horton, for re-appointment of a select committee on emigration from the United Kingdom

1828

Substance of a speech delivered by Colonel Torrens, in the House of Commons 15th February, 1827, on the motion of the Right. Hon. Robert Wilmot Horton, for the re-appointment of a select committee on emigration from the United Kingdom

1828

Address to the farmers of the United Kingdom on the low rates of profit in agriculture and in trade

1831

Address to the farmers of the United Kingdom on the low rates of profit in agriculture and in trade

1831

Financial resolutions intended to be moved by Colonel Torrens on Thursday, 29th March 1832

1832

Letters on commercial policy

1833

Colonization of South Australia

1835

Colonization of South Australia

1835

A letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell on the ministerial measure for establishing poor laws in Ireland, and on the auxiliary means which it will be necessary to employ in carrying that measure into effect

1837

R. Torrens, T. Brettell

A letter to ... lord viscount Melbourne, on the causes of the recent derangement in the money ...

1837

A letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne, on the causes of the recent derangement in the money market, and on bank reform

1837

Three letters to the Marquis of Chandos: on the effects of the Corn laws

1839

A letter to Thomas Tooke, esq.: In reply to his objections against the separation of the business of the bank into a department of issue, and a department of deposit and discount: with a plan of bank reform.

1840

A letter to Thomas Tooke, Esq: in reply to his objections against the separation of the business of the bank into a department of issue, and a department of deposit and discount : with a plan of bank reform

1840

R. Torrens, Thomas Tooke

A letter and a memorial addressed to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell

1842

Postscript to A letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P. ... on the condition of England and on the means of removing the causes of distress

1843

R. Torrens, Robert Peel

Postscript to a letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel ... on the condition of England, and on the means of removing the causes of distress

1843

A letter to Nassau William Senior, Esq. in reply to the article "Free trade and retaliation" in the Edinburgh review, no. CLVII

1843

R. Torrens, Richard Cobden, Arthur Morse, Richard Griffiths Welford

A letter to Nassau William Senior, esq.: in reply to the article "Free trade and retaliation" in the Edinburgh review, no. CLVII

1843

Reply to the objections of the Westminster review to the government plan for the regulation of the currency.

1844

The budget a series of letters on financial, commercial and colonial policy

1844

R. Torrens, Member of the political economy club

Reply to the objections of the Westminster review to the government plan for the regulation of the currency

1844