Major Works of W. Neilson Hancock

• Tenant right of Ulster, considered economically, 1845 [bk]
• Three lectures on the questions, Should the principles of political economy be disregarded at the present crisis? And, if not, how can they be applied towards the discovery of measures of relief?, 1847 [bk]
• On Laissez faire and the economic resources of Ireland, 1848 [bk]
• "On the Compulsory Use of Native Manufactures", 1848, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society [bk]
• "On the Condition of the Irish Labourer", 1848, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society  [bk]
• Two Papers read before the Dublin Statistical Society: i. on the effects of the usury laws on the funding system, ii. a notice of the theory 'that there is no hope for a nation which lives on potatoes', 1848 [bk]
• "On the Economic Causes of the Present State of Agriculture in Ireland: Part III - Legal impediments to the application of capital to land", 1848, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society  [bk]
• "On the utility of making the ordnance survey the basis of a general register of deeds & judgments in Ireland"  1849, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society [bk]
• ""On the Economic Causes of the Present State of Agriculture in Ireland: Part III -  Legal impediments to the application of capital in planting trees and cultivating waste lands", 1849, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society [bk]
• "On the Cost of Patents of Invention in Different Countries", 1850, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society [bk]
•  Impediments to the economic prosperity of Ireland, 1850 [bk]
• The Usury Laws and the trade of lending money to the poor in Ireland, 1850 [bk] [read Feb, 1850, Papers Read before DSS, bk]
• "Prospects of Beet Sugar Manufacture in Ireland: read June 1851", 1851, Papers Read before DSS [bk]
• "Is there really want of capital in Ireland?, read July 1851", 1851, Trans of BAAS [repr. Papers Read before DSS [bk]
• "Should Boards of Guardians endeavor to make Pauper Labour Self-Supporting, or should they investigate the causes of pauperism? read July, 1851" 1851, Trans of BAAS [repr. Papers Read before DSS] [bk]
• The Abolition of Slavery Considered: with reference to the state of the West Indies since emancipation, 1852 [bk]
• "What a perfect income tax of ten percent would produce", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.35
• "A Plan for extending the jurisdiction for selling incumbered estates to cases where a receiver has been appointed over a life estate", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.55
• "On the present sate of the Savings' Bank Question", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.58
• "On the effect of the limitation of parliamentary title to Irleand, in promoting purchases of land by English and Scotch capitalists", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.95
• "Excessive Mortality of British Residents in India, as affecting the choice of the civil service of the East India Company as a career for young men", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.115
• "Is Fire Insurance a proper subject for taxation?", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.221
• "Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844 explained and defended", 1855,  J of the DSS,  p.261
• "On the General Principles of Taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a Perfect Income Tax", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.285
• "Of the advantages of policies of insurance terminable at the age of 63 or at death, instead of at death only", 1855,  J of the DSS, p.321
• Report on the supposed progressive decline of Irish prosperity, 1863 [bk]
• "The Law of Poor Removals and Chargeability, in England, Scotland and Ireland, with suggestions for assimilation and amendment", 1871 [bk]
• Papers on Ireland, 1880 [bk]

Resources on W. Neilson Hancock

•   "Hancock, W. Neilson" in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894-1901 Dictionary of Political Economy [1901 ed.]