Henry Rogers Seager, Ph.D. (July 21, 1870, Lansing, Michigan – August 23, 1930, Kiev, Russia) was an American economist.
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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 a professor of political economy 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 died in 1930 in Kiev, Russia when he was visiting to study Soviet economic philosophy.
In 1910 he published Social Insurance: A Program of Social Reform, one of the first American books on the subject. This book provided a rationale for social insurance, which had its origins in Europe, and influenced the establishment of Social Security in the United States.
He published the following: