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... The Tories would be more divided than at any time since the repeal of the Corn Laws with their fundamental articleof faith. - Labour(which currently lies about Clarke being the man d!fi“hr most”; in fact, they relish the prospect) would hlwaflddxlyaploidngthk ...
... passion for free trade that saw him-found the ‘ magazine, originally as a onesheet newspaper whose aim was to support the Corn Laws. - Wilson continued to edit the . Economist until 1857, three ‘years before his death. The .magazine remained in his family ...
... nation of people starved of their own cultural history, who at school were taught about the Romans, Ancient Egypt and the Corn Laws (whatever they were). - | appeal to MSPs to look to their consciences and reward this great man suitably, by raising a bust ...
... the limitations of their natural resources, as was demonstrated as long ago as 1819 by David Ricardo. The repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 by Britain represented a conscious decision to concentrate on manufacturing (at which we were then rather good) at ...
... Edinburgh, whose best known prescription was for Gregory's Powder; 1865 Richard Cobden, statesman who worked for repeal of Corn Laws, 1872 Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code; 1928 Theodore Richards, chemist and America’s first winner of Nobel prize for ...
... comparative advantage in felation to free trade but David Ritardo, who used the principle to argue afamst the protectionist Corn Laws of the early 1800 s. : italism highly informative; but unduly ‘optimistic about a monetary system which has ‘created wealth ...
... party fora g:n-eration. “Rotten potatoes have done it” was the Duke of Wellington's mssonse to Peel’s decision to repeal the Corn Laws in the wake of the failure of the Irish potato crop and the result- ing famine. There may be no such succinct judgment possible ...
... British politics, proved on five occasions between 1846 and 1931. In 1846, the Tories split on the issue of the repeal of the Corn Laws; there was no Tory government with a workable majority till 1874.bg1 1886, the Liberals split over llome rule for Ireland; ...
... questions could only be directly blamed for four changes of government since 1832: the fall of Peel over the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846; the fall of the Derby ministry over its budget in 1852; the collapse of Arthur Balfour’s government over Tariff ...
... medieval survivals and mercantilist theory shackled economic enterprise. Pitt’s true successor was Peel who, by abolishing the Corn Laws, though most of his party wanted to retain them, inaugurated the age of free trade and economic laissez-faire. His disciple ...
... excellent articles by Mclivanney. If we are not prepared to face up to atrocities from our past (remember anything about the Corn Laws?) then something of the same is more likely to recur. A pity to have to keep restating the obvious for people like your ...
... being a 'tinycpn'sznceonfixefiingao{ the Grassmarket into becoming a prominent Edinburgh citizen. lnpthe years before the Corn Laws were repealed, the mealmen wem,,hqgfl important. The price of bread was the crue s e polnaist chtmucat b thet in each glimpse ...