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The Manchester School was the name given by Disraeli after the event to the leaders of the successful agitation conducted between 1838 and 1846 to abolish the Corn Laws. It is wrongly associated with the arch-advocacy of laissez-faire. The people of the School were not in fact united by any single idea, other than believing in the complete and immediate repeal of the tariff on grain.
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Grampp, W.D. (2018). Manchester School. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_732
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