[12] The Present State of England in Regard to Agriculture, Trade and Finance (1822) was Lowe's major work, now noted mostly for its Chapter IX, Fluctuation in the Value of Money or in the Price of Commodities, which influenced George Poulett Scrope.
[15] Lowe's general conclusions were rather buoyant, allowing the British economy good prospects and the moderation of the culture being promising for the future.
[23][24] Samuel Bailey argued against the concept of tabular standards, pointing to the difficulties arising from the need for like-to-like comparisons.
[25] William Stanley Jevons later found Lowe's pioneer work on inflation-indexed bonds "ingenious".
[28] As a statistician, Lowe was one of an early group who collected economic data, and applied it in pamphlets and polemics.
The larger significance of the statistical work of Lowe and Thomas Tooke is that they collected figures from the period of the Continental System, of the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars.
Others bringing forward sets of figures were Patrick Colquhoun, Frederick Morton Eden, and George Richardson Porter.
[31] He accused those who had drawn up the Bullion Report into monetary policy after the end of the Napoleonic Wars of failing to take into account recent economic growth.
[33] Lowe turned from his career as merchant to writing, after a reply he made to a pamphlet of Henry Brougham in 1806 was a success.