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Cover of Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Edited by John M. Robson

  • Published: 1981
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415480581
  • Set ISBN: 9780415480581

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Essays on Economics and Society


obituary notices suggest that Mill’s contemporaries thought his greatest contribution had been in logic rather than in economics or politics. In the intervening century that judgment has been altered, and Mill is far more often thought of as an economist than as a logician. By quantitative standard alone, the recent view has been more correct, for Mill cultivated his interest in economics more assiduously and constantly than any of his other interests. His first published writings were the letters on the measure of value referred to by Lord Robbins (p. viiin above); the climax of his middle years is signalled by his Principles in 1848 (the date chosen by Professors Mineka and Hayek to terminate the Earlier Letters); and he devoted much thought in his later years to problems of socialism and land tenure. In almost every one of the intervening years he wrote something of interest to students of economics, although seldom is it possible to say that an article or letters or speech is of interest only to economists, and hardly ever that it is of more interest to economists than to others.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Lord Lionel Robbins
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    Textual Introduction By John M. Robson
  • War Expenditure 1824
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      War Expenditure
  • The Quarterly Review on Political Economy 1825
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Quarterly Review on Political Economy
  • The Corn Laws 1825
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Corn Laws
  • Paper Currency and Commercial Distress 1826
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Paper Currency and Commercial Distress
  • The Silk Trade 1826
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Silk Trade
  • The New Corn Law 1827 By John M. Robson
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The New Corn Law
  • The Nature, Origin, and Progress of Rent 1828
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Nature, Origin, and Progress of Rent
  • The Currency Juggle 1833
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Currency Juggle
  • Corporation and Church Property 1833
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Corporation and Church Property
  • Miss Martineau’s Summary of Political Economy 1834
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Miss Martineau’s Summary of Political Economy
  • Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy 1844
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Preface
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      Of the Laws of Interchange Between Nations; and the Distribution of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World
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      Of the Influence of Consumption on Production
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      On the Words Productive and Unproductive
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      On Profits, and Interest
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      On the Definition of Political Economy; and on the Method of a Investigation Proper to It
  • The Currency Question 1844
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Currency Question
  • The Claims of Labour 1845
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Claims of Labour
  • De Quincey’s Logic of Political Economy 1845
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      De Quincey’s Logic of Political Economy