Nassau W. Senior

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Nassau W. Senior was a 19th-century English economist and legal scholar known for his contributions to classical political economy and his role in early labor and poverty reform debates.

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Edwin Chadwick 4
Nassau W. Senior canonical 1
Poor Law Commissioner 1

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instanceOf economist
human
legal scholar
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1790-09-26
dateOfDeath 1864-06-04
educatedAt Eton College
Magdalen College, Oxford
employer University of Oxford
endTime 1830
1852
familyName Senior
fieldOfWork law
political economy
social reform
givenName Nassau
languageSpoken English
memberOf Poor Law Commission
movement classical economics
name Nassau William Senior
notableIdea abstinence theory of capital
critique of Malthusian population theory
theory of wages based on last hour of labor
notableWork An Outline of the Science of Political Economy
Letters on the Factory Act
On National Property
Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages
occupation economist
jurist
legal scholar
university professor
participantIn debates on the English Poor Laws
factory reform debates in 19th-century Britain
placeOfBirth Compton, Berkshire, England
linked to: Compton, Berkshire
placeOfDeath Kensington, London, England
positionHeld Commissioner on the Poor Law Inquiry
Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford
publicationDate 1830
1836
religion Anglicanism
startTime 1825
1847
workLocation London
linked to: London, England

Oxford

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Thomas Frankland Lewis positionHeld Poor Law Commissioner
linked to: Nassau W. Senior
Public Health Act 1848 influencedBy Edwin Chadwick
linked to: Nassau W. Senior
Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 member Edwin Chadwick
linked to: Nassau W. Senior
Poor Law Commission hasMember Edwin Chadwick
linked to: Nassau W. Senior
Andover workhouse scandal significantPerson Edwin Chadwick
linked to: Nassau W. Senior