ROBBINS (Lionel).
Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics.
A ‘masterpiece’ in the history of economic thought, ‘which established a vogue in viewing a whole period from the standpoint of a relatively minor economist of the day’ (Blaug). Robert Torrens (1780?-1864) ‘was a first class economist whose economic thought challenged the status quo, and who probably deserves to be ranked with Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo as one of the great Classical Economists’ (Baylen & Gossman, Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals II, pp. 499-500).
