Senior contribuyó a las publicaciones Quarterly Review, Edinburgh Review, London Review y North British Review con artículos sobre política y economía.

Sus escritos sobre teoría económica constan de un artículo en la Encyclopædía Metropolitana, más tarde publicados como An Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836), y sus clases en Oxford. Se imprimieron:

• An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy (Londres: John Murray, 1827).
• Two Lectures on Population, con una correspondencia entre el autor y Malthus (1829).
• Three Lectures on the Transmission of the Precious Metals from Country to Country, and the Mercantile Theory of Wealth (1828).
• Three Lectures on the Cost of obtaining Money, and on some Effects of Private and Government Paper Money (Londres: John Murray, 1830).
• Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages (1830, 2.ª ed. 1831).
• A Lecture on the Production of Wealth (1847).
• Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1852).

Varias de sus conferencias fueron traducidas al francés por M. Arrivabne bajo el título de Principes Fondamentaux d'Economie Politique (1835).

Senior también escribió sobre temas administrativos y sociales:

• Report on the Depressed State of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom. In: The Quarterly Review (1821), p. 466–504
• A Letter to Lord Howick on a Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, Commutation of Tithes and a Provision for the Irish Roman Catholic Clergy (1831, 3rd ed., 1832, with a preface containing suggestions as to the measures to be adopted in the present emergency)
• Statement of the Provision for the Poor and of the Condition of the Laboring Classes in a considerable portion of America and Europe, being the Preface to the Foreign Communications in the Appendix to the Poor Law Report (1835)
• On National Property, and on the Prospects of the Present Administration and of their Successors (anon.; 1835)
• Letters on the Factory Act, as it affects the Cotton Manufacture (1837)
• Suggestions on Popular Education (1861)
• American Slavery (in part a reprint from the Edinburgh Review, 1862)
• An Address on Education delivered to the Social Science Association (1863)

Sus contribuciones a revistas han sido publicadas en volúmenes titulados: Essays on Fiction (1864); Biographical Sketches (1865) y Historical and Philosophical Essays (1865).

• Journals, Conversations and Essays relating to Ireland (1868)
• Journals kept in France and Italy from 1848 to 1852, with a Sketch of the Revolution of 1848 (1871)
• Conversations with Thiers, Guizot and other Distinguished Persons during the Second Empire (1878)
• Conversations with Distinguished Persons during the Second Empire, from 1860 to 1863 (1880)
• Conversations and Journals in Egypt and Malta (1882)
• Correspondence and Conversations with Alexis de Tocqueville from 1834 to 1859. (1872)

• Levy, S. Leon (1943). Nassau W. Senior, The Prophet of Modern Capitalism, Boston, Massachusetts: Bruce Humphries. OCLC 730126628
• Levy, S. Leon (1970). Nassau W. Senior 1790–1864, Newton Abbot : David & Charles. OCLC 463277765
• Smith, George H. (2008). «Senior, Nassau William (1790–1864)». En Hamowy, Ronald, ed. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 457-58. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n279.