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First published 1852

Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy

by Nassau W. Senior

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852; Online Library of Liberty edition37 pages

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Author
Nassau W. Senior
First published
1852
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PDF and EPUB
Pages
37
Publisher
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Four lectures Senior gave at Oxford in 1847 and published in 1852. They discuss why political economy advanced so slowly, treat it as a mental and positive science that deals with wealth rather than happiness, and defend its claim to be taken seriously as a body of deductive reasoning from a few general premises.

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Nassau William Senior (1790–1864) was a British economist who taught at Oxford University and worked on the marginal aspects of inputs to production. This archive holds 7 of Senior's works.

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7 chapters · 19,884 words · free to read here

  1. LECTURE I.: CAUSES THAT HAVE RETARDED THE PROGRESS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
  2. LECTURE II.: POLITICAL ECONOMY A MENTAL STUDY.
  3. LECTURE III.: REASONS FOR TREATING POLITICAL ECONOMY AS A SCIENCE.
  4. LECTURE IV.: THAT POLITICAL ECONOMY IS A POSITIVE, NOT AN HYPOTHETICAL SCIENCE.—DEFINITION OF WEALTH.
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