George William Daniels FSS (1878 – 17 December 1937) was a British political economist and historian who was vice-president of the Chetham Society and President of the Manchester Statistical Society.
Daniels was born in Manchester and educated at the Victoria University of Manchester where he gained his Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Commerce (M.Com.)
degrees and was later appointed Stanley Jeavons Professor of Political Economy.
He worked with the economists John Jewkes and Harry Campion.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1930.