Henry Rogers Seager

Henry Rogers Seager, Ph.D. (1870, Lansing, Michigan – 1930) was an American economist.

He studied at the University of Michigan (Ph.B., 1890), at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1894), at Johns Hopkins University, and in Europe at Halle, Berlin, and Vienna.

He was employed at the University of Pennsylvania from 1897-1902, and then at Columbia University, where he became professor in 1905.

Seager was a member of several commissions in New York to investigate labor conditions. He served as president of the American Association for Labor Legislation and served on the board of editors of the "Political Science Quarterly".

He published the following:
* "Introduction to Economics" (1904)
* " Economics, Briefer Course" (1909)
* "Social Insurance" (1910)
* "Principles of Economics" (1913)