James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and the history of economic thought

Table of contents:
List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

　

Introduction

MASATOMI FUJIMOTO, JOHN VINT,

AND TARO HISAMATSU

　

　

PART I

Cultivation and Education

1 John Stuart Mill and the Stationary State

GREGORY CLAEYS

2 James and John Stuart Mill on Education

RENEE PRENDERGAST

PART II

Utilitarianism

3 The Felicific Calculus and the Art of Life according to James and John Stuart Mill

VICTOR BIANCHINI

4 John Stuart Mill, Sidgwick and the Philosophical Foundations of Political Economy

DAISUKE NAKAI

PART III

International Relations and Trade

5 John Stuart Mill on Britain’s Dependencies: Focusing on its Military Expenditure in the Nineteenth Century

YOSHIFUMI OZAWA

6 ‘I profess to have made no discovery’: James Mill on Comparative Advantage

GILBERT FACCARELLO

7 James Mill and the Alleged Error in Ricardo

TARO HISAMATSU

8 John Stuart Mill as the Founder of Theory of Reciprocal Demand

MASATOMI FUJIMOTO

PART IV

Work and Life

9 John Stuart Mill on the Theory of Wages and Ricardo

SHUNSUKE MOROIZUMI & MASASHI IZUMO

10 Alfred Marshall’s Acceptance and Deviation from John Stuart Mill

MASASHI KONDO

11 James Mill, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Martineau: Connections, Disconnections and Convergence

JOHN VINT

12 John Stuart Mill’s ‘Qualified Socialism’

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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death, this volume analyses the Mills’ discussions on topics such as environment, cultivation, education, utilitarianism, socialism, international relations, international trade, and living standard.

John Stuart Mill is an important figure of the classical political economy, and his father played a critical role in the early stages of his intellectual development. The contributions of the two Mills are examined by leading scholars on the theory and history of economics from Japan, UK, and France. They not only deal with the Mills’ individual contributions but also shed light on their relationships and associations with a number of economists and philosophers in Britain between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries, including Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Pennington, Torrens, Martineau, Longfield, Morris, Sidgwick, and Marshall.

This book is an essential read for scholars interested in the economics of James and John Mill, and reconsideration of their theories and thoughts using the backdrop of the current state of society.

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