A web search for the 19th Century Manchester School of Economics yields very little, until I finally stumbled across a speech given by Alex Singleton, the President of the Globalisation Institute on the occasion of their launch in London on July 19, 2005. This is what he said:

We follow the Manchester School of Economics. That’s the school founded in the 19th Century by economists, businesspeople and campaigners who argued for free trade. Why would we want to dig up the ideas of some dead economists?

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