Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (21 June 1825King William's College Register, ENTRANCES IN NOVEMBER 1837.27 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"Political economy and the rate of wages", Fraser's Magazine, July 1868. Cf. W. S. Jevons, Second Preface, The Theory of Political Economy London, Macmillan (1888) 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.
