Manchester School

noun

a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.

He so far forsook the strait "Manchester School" of his upbringing as to support Macdonald's campaign for protection in 1878.

Your Manchester school treat all social and industrial problems from the standpoint of mere animal subsistence.

But we must not deny that the Manchester School and its predecessors were indispensable in their own day.

The Manchester School was essentially a middle-class school.

The Manchester School saw only the fetters which directly impeded him.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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