page_title: The Oeconomist, Or, Englishman's Magazine
section_title: Contributors and content
hierarchical_section_title: The Oeconomist, Or, Englishman's Magazine / Contributors and content
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page engraving for The Oeconomist, Or, Englishman's Magazine: "Truth, Liberty, Virtue".
context_page_description: The Oeconomist, full title The Oeconomist, Or, Englishman's Magazine, was an English monthly periodical at the end of the 18th century. It was published in Newcastle upon Tyne, and was edited by Thomas Bigge, in partnership with James Losh.
context_section_description: The contributors to The Oeconomist included some of those associated with the "Friends of Peace", an anti-war network, such as Vicesimus Knox. Theophilus Lindsey offered to help Bigge by soliciting contributions, but came away empty-handed when he approached William Belsham and Ann Jebb. Graham counts Bigge an ally of Christopher Wyvill. Besides Losh, the contributors included William Turner and Thomas Beddoes. An article appeared signed "V.F.", praising Count Rumford's workhouse in Munich, and describing a Rumford soup kitchen in Newcastle. "V.F." was a pseudonym used by Turner. Poetry by William Cowper was featured.
  The Oeconomist took a moralising as well as a political tone. Scrivener identifies its values as pastoral, the intended audience being those engaged in farming. Its thought was taken from the Country Party and physiocrats.
caption: "Truth, Liberty, Virtue", title page engraving for The Oeconomist by Charlton Nesbit
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