Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (21 June 1826 – 27 January 1882) was an Irish economist. He was professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen's College, Belfast, noted for debunking the Wages-Fund doctrine and for addressing contemporary agrarian policy questions. A critic of Ricardian orthodoxy, he said that it had sidelined consumer behavior 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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