The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

He was also a government adviser over several decades in the areas of economic and social policy on which he wrote extensively. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College Oxford; at university he was a private pupil of Richard Whately afterwards archbishop of Dublin with whom he remained connected by ties of lifelong friendship. I think that the only legitimate influence is example and advice and that a landlord who requires a tenant to vote in opposition to the tenant's feeling of duty is the suborner of a criminal act.

Nassau William Senior (26 September 1790 – 4 June 1864) was an English lawyer known as an economist.