Writings
His writings on economic theory consisted of an article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, afterwards separately published as An Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836), and his lectures delivered at Oxford. Of the latter the following were printed:
- An Introductory Lecture (1827)
- Two Lectures on Population, with a correspondence between the author and Malthus (1829)
- Three Lectures on the Transmission of the Precious Metals from Country to Country, and the Mercantile Theory of Wealth (1828)
- Three Lectures on the Cost of obtaining Money and on some Effects of Private and Government Paper Money (1830)
- Three Lectures on Wages and on the Effects of Absenteeism, Machinery and War, with a Preface on the Causes and Remedies of the Present Disturbances (1830, 2nd ed. 1831)
- A Lecture on the Production of Wealth (1847)
- Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1852).
Several of his lectures were translated into French by M. Arrivabne under the title of Principes Fondamentaux d'Economie Politique (1835).
Senior also wrote on administrative and social questions:
- Report on the Depressed State of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom. In: The Quarterly Review (1821), p. 466 - 504
- A Letter to Lord Howick on a Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, Commutation of Tithes and a Provision for the Irish Roman Catholic Clergy (1831, 3rd ed., 1832, with a preface containing suggestions as to the measures to be adopted in the present emergency)
- Statement of the Provision for the Poor and of the Condition of the Laboring Classes in a considerable portion of America and Europe, being the Preface to the Foreign Communications in the Appendix to the Poor Law Report (1835)
- On National Property, and on the Prospects of the Present Administration and of their Successors (anon.; 1835)
- Letters on the Factory Act, as it affects the Cotton Manufacture (1837)
- Suggestions on Popular Education (1861)
- American Slavery (in part a reprint from the Edinburgh Review, 1862)
- An Address on Education delivered to the Social Science Association (1863)
His contributions to the reviews were collected in volumes entitled Essays on Fiction (1864); Biographical Sketches (1865, chiefly of noted lawyers); and Historical and Philosophical Essays (1865).
In 1859 appeared his Journal kept in Turkey and Greece in the Autumn of 1857 and the Beginning of 1858; and the following were edited after his death by his daughter:
- Journals, Conversations and Essays relating to Ireland (1868)
- Journals kept in France and Italy from 1848 to 1852, with a Sketch of the Revolution of 1848 (1871)
- Conversations with Thiers, Guizot and other Distinguished Persons during the Second Empire (1878)
- Conversations with Distinguished Persons during the Second Empire, from 1860 to 1863 (1880)
- Conversations and Journals in Egypt and Malta (1882)
- also in 1872 Correspondence and Conversations with Alexis de Tocqueville from 1834 to 1859.
Senior's tracts on practical politics, though the theses they supported were sometimes questionable, were ably written and are still worth reading, but cannot be said to be of much permanent interest. But his name continues to hold an honorable, though secondary, place in the history of political economy.
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