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John Bright, a Lancashire mill-owner, became a national figure in the campaign that repealed the Corn Laws in 1846 and that came to be known as the Manchester School.
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Grampp, W.D. (2018). Bright, John (1811–89). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_79
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