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Bagehot was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn, but preferred to join his father in 1852 in his family's shipping and banking business.
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Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was appealing to some economists, sociologists and political scientists ( most notably Walter Bagehot and William Graham Sumner ) who adapted and rationalized the invisible hand by incorporating the popular idea of the survival of the fittest.
He was primus inter pares, " first among equals ", as Bagehot said in 1867 of the Prime Minister's status.
Such a concept was reinforced in The English Constitution ( 1876 ) by Walter Bagehot, who emphasised the " dignified " and " efficient " aspects of government.
In this sense Bagehot was stating that the sovereign should be a focal point for the nation, while the PM and cabinet actually undertook executive decisions.
The magazine The Economist was initiated during September 1843 by politician James Wilson with help from the Anti-Corn Law League ; his son-in-law Walter Bagehot later became the editor of this newspaper.
This interpretation was originally put across in the work of nineteenth century constitutionalists such as Walter Bagehot, who described the Cabinet as the ' efficient secret ' of the British political system in his book The English Constitution.
Walter Bagehot ( " Badgett "; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877 ) was a British businessman, essayist, and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.
Bagehot was born in Langport, Somerset, England, on 3 February 1826.
His father, Thomas Walter Bagehot, was managing director and vice-chairman of Stuckey's Banking Company.
In April 1848, Bagehot was sworn as a Special Constable in anticipation of Chartist riots in London.
His family moved to London in 1835, and he was educated at University College School and University College, London, where he began a lifelong friendship with Walter Bagehot, whose works he later edited.
He was once described by the " Bagehot " opinion column in The Economist as a " hard-left oddball ".
Lending into illiquidity, but not insolvency, was articulated at least as early as 1873, in Lombard Street, A Description of the Money Market, by Walter Bagehot.
In 1826 it was the birthplace of Walter Bagehot a businessman, essayist and journalist, who wrote extensively about literature, government, economic affairs and other topics.
The river was the subject of the abortive Ivelchester and Langport Navigation in 1795, and although the works were never completed, traffic on the river was sufficient for the coal merchants Stukey and Bagehot to establish a coal yard near the bridge by 1824.
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In The English Constitution, Walter Bagehot emphasised the divide of the constitution into two components, the Dignified ( that part which is symbolic ) and the Efficient ( the way things actually work and get done ), and called the Efficient " Cabinet Government ".
Walter Bagehot of The Economist newspaper in London argued that the new nation should be called ' Northland ' or ' Anglia ' instead of Canada.
It may, perhaps, be thought that Cairnes gives too little attention to the effects of the organism of society on economic facts, and that he is disposed to overlook what Walter Bagehot called the postulates of political economy.
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* Bagehot, Walter ; edited by Paul Smith ( 2001 ).
Later becoming editor-in-chief of The Economist, which had been founded by his father-in-law, James Wilson, in 1860, Bagehot expanded The Economists reporting on the United States and on politics and is considered to have increased its influence among policymakers over the seventeen years he served as editor.
Bagehot ’ s observations on finance remain relevant and cited by central bankers, most recently in the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007.
* Works by Walter Bagehot at Internet Archive
In spite of the fact that his appeals did not prevent the passing of the Second Reform Act, Robert Lowe beat Walter Bagehot in the next election to become the first Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the London University, a new constituency created by the very Act he opposed.
* Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, a book by Walter Bagehot
It is possibly derived from the phrase " Public opinion ... is the opinion of the bald-headed man at the back of the omnibus ," coined by the 19th century journalist Walter Bagehot to describe the normal man of London.
Oxford English Dictionary ' picturesque ') before being described by Bagehot in Literary Studies ( 1879 ) as " a quality distinct from that of beauty, or sublimity, or grandeur.
The name Feghoot and the nature of the stories — detailed and tedious, yet ending in vaguely familiar catchphrases — may have been inspired by Walter Bagehot, a major literary and political figure from the late 1800s now fallen into obscurity.
Bagehot and business
In honour of his contributions, the paper's weekly commentary on current affairs in the UK is entitled " Bagehot ", just as its " Lexington " column addresses the United States, " Charlemagne " addresses Europe, " Banyan " addresses Asia, " Schumpeter " addresses business, and " Buttonwood " addresses financial markets.
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* The English Constitution, Walter Bagehot, 1876.
* March 24 – Walter Bagehot, British businessman, essayist and journalist ( b. 1826 )
* Bagehot ( Britain ) — named for Walter Bagehot (), nineteenth-century British constitutional expert and early editor of The Economist.
The book appeared at the same time that Parliament enacted the Reform Act of 1867, requiring Bagehot to write an extended introduction to the second edition, which appeared in 1872.
Bagehot also wrote Physics and Politics ( 1872 ), in which he coined the still-current expression " the cake of custom " to describe the tension between social institutions and innovations.
In his contributions to sociological theory within historical studies, Bagehot may be compared to his contemporary, Henry James Sumner Maine.
Every year, the British Political Studies Association awards the Walter Bagehot Prize for the best dissertation in the field of government and public administration.
* The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Volumes 1-15, ed.
* Emily ( Mrs Russell ) Barrington, ed., The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, in 10 vols.
Included in this school are: William Whewell, Richard Jones, Walter Bagehot, Thorold Rogers, Arnold Toynbee and William Cunningham just to name a few.
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She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.
It was the marine: head lifted, he strained and called.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
The slender, handsome fellow was called Dandy Brandon by the other slaves.
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.
And with Progressivism the Religion of Humanity was replacing what Gabriel called Christian supernaturalism.
He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.
A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
The settlement was called Shawomet.
Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.
The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.
when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.
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