Titles by Nassau William Senior

1790 – 1864

Nassau W. Senior (1790-1864) was a British economist who taught at Oxford University and worked on the marginal aspects of inputs to production. He argued that capital accumulation is a cost of production, and drew careful distinctions between wealth and welfare. His contributions to the Whig party as an advisor included arguments about work hours and wages. Along with Edwin Chadwick, he wrote the revised Poor Law Commissioners’ Report of 1834.

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Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834-1859, 2 vols. (1872)

Nassau William Senior

Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834-1859, vol. 2 (1834-1851)

Nassau William Senior

Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy

Nassau William Senior

Letters on the Factory Act

Nassau William Senior

Political Economy (1850 ed.)

Nassau William Senior

Poor Law Commissioners’ Report of 1834

Nassau William Senior

Three Lectures on the Transmission of Precious Metals

Nassau William Senior

Three Lectures on the Cost of Obtaining Money

Nassau William Senior

Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages

Nassau William Senior

Two Lectures on Population

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