Talk:Robert Torrens (economist)

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[edit] Putting Torrens' essays on Wikisource

Given how old this material is, I'm sure it must be without copyright. I tried to find An Essay on the External Corn Trade using Google, but I couldn't get anything. The closest I came to the source texts were two sites offering the essay or book for a price. If someone could get them uploaded it would be great.

Edit: By the way, he's not Australian, is he? The article is classed as an Australian biography stub, yet is seems he is British from all the material above - perhaps the person who sorted it confused him with the River Torrens? Richard001 21:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

The material on-line, everywhere, is unreliable. Only the entry in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is accurate. Marginally better is the entry in J E King, A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar 2007. Full facsimiles of almost all of Torrens' publications are in the 8 volumed edition by Giancarlo de Vivo, Collected Works of Robert Torrens, London, Thoemmes Press 2000 - 1815 and 1820 editions of the Essay on the External Corn Trade are in volume 2. Torrens was Irish, something that everyone has always omitted/avoided, perhaps because the English are uncomfortable about the Irish. He did not come to South Australia, nor New Zealand which he also attempted to colonise. The River Torrens was named after him because he was the Chairman of the statutory Board of Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia from its inception in 1835.Peter L Moore (talk) 23:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)