Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free market capitalism, to government intervention within the precepts of Utilitarianism, and finally to Socialism.

By : John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

00 - Preface and Contents 01 - Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations pt. 1 02 - Of the Laws of Interchange Between Nations pt. 2 03 - Of the Laws of Interchange Between Nations pt. 3 04 - Of the Influence of Consumption on Production pt. 1 05 - Of the Influence of Consumption on Production pt. 2 06 - On the Words Productive and Unproductive 07 - On Profits and Interest pt.1 08 - On Profits and Interest pt. 2 09 - On the Definition of Political Economy, and on the Method of Investigation Proper to It pt. 1 10 - On the Definition of Political Economy, and on the Method of Investigation Proper to It pt. 2 11 - On the Definition of Political Economy, and on the Method of Investigation Proper to It pt. 3

John Stuart Mill , usually cited as J. S. Mill, was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.

Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. Mill engaged in written debate with Whewell.

A member of the Liberal Party, he was also the second Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832.