Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie
Irish economist
Died when: 55 years 220 days (667 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (21 June 1825 – 27 January 1882) was an Irish jurist and economist.He was professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen's College, Belfast, noted for challenging the Wages-Fund doctrine and for addressing contemporary agrarian policy questions.
A critic of Ricardian orthodoxy, he said that it had sidelined consumer behaviour and demand.He developed the idea of consumer sovereignty, but insisted that the analysis of demand should be based on historical and comparative institutional work.
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