Robert Dudley Baxter
Robert Dudley Baxter was an English economist and statistician.
Life
Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He studied law and entered his father's 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.Works
His principal economic writings were:- The Budget and the Income Tax, 1860
- Railway Extension and its Results, 1866
- The Panic of 1866; With its Lessons on the Currency Act, 1866
- The National Income, 1868
- The Taxation of the United Kingdom, 1869
- National Debts of the World, 1871
- Local Government and Taxation, 1874
- 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