Essays on Economics and Society

by John Stuart Mill

Volumes 4 and 5 bring together a rich collection of Mill’s writing on politics and the economy over the course of his intellectual career.Volume 4 includes, most significantly, “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy.” Here, Mill grapples with issues related to foreign trade and the balancing of government’s goal<br>of promoting free trade with its interest in raising revenues from import duties and tariffs. Also included in these volumes are such early essays as “The Silk Trade” and “The Nature, Origin, and Progress of Rent” and such later works as Mill’s petition on free trade and “Chapters on Socialism” (posthumously published).

Genres: Economics

902 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

About the author

John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's.

Reviews

[Gerry]

Excellent exegesis