Henry Rogers Seager

Henry Rogers Seager (July 21, 1870 – August 23, 1930, Kiev, Russia) was an American economist, and Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, who served as president of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

Inspired by the work of the Austrian School, Seager published his main work "Principles of Economics" in 1913. Inline with the institutional economics this textbook was typical "empirical and institutional in applied work, that dealt with real markets." In 1929 he published his most cited work, entitled "Trust and corporation problems."

Seager was born to Schuyler Fiske Seager and Alice (Berry) Seager in Lansing, Michigan, where his father worked as lawyer. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he obtained his P.h.B. in 1890. He continued his studies at the at Johns Hopkins University under Herbert Baxter Adams and Richard T. Ely for a year, in Europe at Halle, Berlin, and Vienna for two years, obtaiting his PhD back in the US from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894 under Simon Patten.

In 1894 Seager started his academic career as instructor in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and got promoted assistant professor in 1896 and to adjunct professor in 1902. In 1905 he moved to the Columbia University, where he was appointed professor of political economy.

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