Walter Bagehot

British journalist, businessman, and essayist (1826-1877)

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Born: 1826
Died: 1877
Works: 107

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The love-letters of Walter Bagehot and Eliza Wilson
Parliamentary reform
La constitution anglaise
The collected works of Walter Bagehot
倫敦貨幣市場

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Type: Person
Active from: 1946-12-13

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5 total works indexed

The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,366x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,244x
A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,045x

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Quotes

“The characteristic danger of great nations like the Romans or the English, which have a long history of continuous creation, is, that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created.”
“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people who can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”
“Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.”
“The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.”
“Whatever may be the defects of Gibbon's history, none can deny him a proud precision and a style in marching order.”
“... The fame of Gibbon is highest among writers; those especially who have studied for years particular periods included in his theme (and how many those are; for in the East and West he has set his mark on all that is great for ten centuries!) acutely feel and admiringly observe how difficult it would be to say so much, and leave so little untouched ; to compress so many telling points; to present in so few words so apt and embracing a narrative of the whole.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1826-02-03 ) 3 February 1826, Langport , Somerset, England
Died: 24 March 1877 (1877-03-24) (aged 51), Langport, Somerset, England
Alma mater: University College London
Occupations: Businessman essayist journalist
Political party: Liberal
Spouse: Elizabeth (Eliza) Wilson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1858 )

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date of birth: 1826-02-03
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Walter Bagehot (/ˈbædʒət/ BAJ-ət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race. He is known for co-founding the National Review in 1855, and for his works The English Constitution and Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873).

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