Three Lectures On the Transmission of the Precious Metals From Country to Country and the Mercantile Theory of Wealth: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, in June, 1827 by Senior, Nassau William

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London: John Murray. 1830. Hardcover. Good in boards. Stain at front panel. Sticker to spine. Hinge is starting. Foxing. Scarce. Senior was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; at the university he was a private pupil of Richard Whately, afterwards archbishop of Dublin, with whom he remained connected by ties of lifelong friendship. He took the degree of B. A. In 1811, was called to the bar in 1819, and in 1836, during the chancellorship of Lord Cottenham, was appointed a master in chancery. On the foundation of the professorship of political economy at Oxford in 1825 Senior was elected to fill the chair, which he occupied till 1830, and again from 1847 to 1852. In 1830 he was requested by Lord Melbourne to inquire into the state of combinations and strikes, to report on the state of the law and to suggest improvements in it. Senior was a member of the Poor Law Inquiry Commission of 1832, and of the handloom weavers Commission of 1837. The report of the latter, published in… Read More