Thomas Tooke

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Thomas Tooke was a 19th-century British economist and statistician best known for his pioneering work on price history and monetary theory, particularly through his multi-volume "History of Prices."

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instanceOf British economist
economist
human
statistician
countryOfCitizenship Great Britain
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1774
dateOfDeath 1858
describedBySource 19th-century economic literature
educatedAt Charterhouse School
employer Bank of England
fieldOfWork economic history
economics
monetary economics
price statistics
genre economic history literature
statistical study
hasPart History of Prices
surface form: History of Prices, volume 1

History of Prices
surface form: History of Prices, volume 2

History of Prices
surface form: History of Prices, volume 3

History of Prices
surface form: History of Prices, volume 4

History of Prices
surface form: History of Prices, volume 5

History of Prices
surface form: History of Prices, volume 6
influenced John Stuart Mill
Walter Bagehot
influencedBy David Ricardo
classical political economy
knownFor History of Prices
critique of the quantity theory of money
monetary theory
price history
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Political Economy Club
movement classical economics
surface form: Classical economics
notableWork A History of Prices and of the State of the Circulation from 1793 to 1837
History of Prices
occupation economist
merchant
statistician
placeOfBirth England
placeOfDeath London, England
surface form: London
positionHeld director of the Bank of England
residence London, England
surface form: London
sexOrGender male

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