The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

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.