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 1
Nassau W. Senior canonical 1
Poor Law Commissioner 1

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Predicate Object
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 NERFINISHED
employer University of Oxford
endTime 1830
1852
familyName Senior NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork law
political economy
social reform
givenName Nassau NERFINISHED
languageSpoken English
memberOf Poor Law Commission NERFINISHED
movement classical economics
name Nassau William Senior NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Letters on the Factory Act NERFINISHED
On National Property NERFINISHED
Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Kensington, London, England NERFINISHED
positionHeld Commissioner on the Poor Law Inquiry
Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1830
1836
religion Anglicanism NERFINISHED
startTime 1825
1847
workLocation London, England
surface form: London

Oxford NERFINISHED

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Thomas Frankland Lewis positionHeld Nassau W. Senior
this entity surface form: Poor Law Commissioner
Public Health Act 1848 influencedBy Nassau W. Senior
this entity surface form: Edwin Chadwick