Selected Economic Writings

by Mill,James

• ISBN13: 9781412805780
• ISBN10: 1412805783
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mill’s writings in this volume, first published in 1966, cover his development as an economist and are an attempt to assess his contribution to classic political economy. Particular attention is paid to the formative but less well-known pre-Benthamite period of his life. The volume opens with a substantial biographical assessment of Mill’s life and work. The selections are specifically divided into four groups consisting of: early economic writings (An Essay of the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain,” Commerce Defended,” and Smith on Money and Exchange”); James Mill and David Ricardo (Elements of Political Economy”); Mill on scope and method (Whether Political Economy is Useful”); and Mill and India (History of British India”). Donald Winch provides an introduction to each section the contextualizes the essays in Mill’s own work and the economic thought of the time.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii
EDITORIAL NOTE	viii
I BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH	1	(22)
II EARLY ECONOMIC WRITINGS: 1804-1808	23	(156)
AN ESSAY OF THE IMPOLICY OF A BOUNTY ON THE EXPORTATION OF GRAIN (1804)	41	(44)
COMMERCE DEFENDED (1808)	85	(75)
SMITH ON MONEY AND EXCHANGE (1808)	160	(19)
III JAMES MILL AND DAVID RICARDO	179	(188)
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY (1826)	203	(164)
IV JAMES MILL ON SCOPE AND METHOD	367	(16)
WHETHER POLITICAL ECONOMY IS USEFUL	371	(12)
V JAMES MILL AND INDIA	383	(61)
HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA (1826)	397	(47)
Extracts from Oral Evidence and Memoranda submitted by James Mill to the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company 1831 and 1832	423	(21)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	444	(5)
INDEX	449