Principles of Political Economy -Cosimo, Inc., 2006 M09 1 - 476 páginas Can national growth be sustained indefinitely? How much should government intervene in a competitive market economy? The questions John Stuart Mill raised a century and a half ago, in 1848's Principles of Political Economy, and the answers he found, are just as critical-and just as contentiously debated-today. Through a lens of what the philosopher himself termed "philosophical radicalism"-and what some today call "democratic liberalism"-Mill takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and other influential works of political thought of his time, and recasts them from a more scientific viewpoint, suggesting that such realities as the unequal distribution of wealth were not "natural" but rather a matter of human choice... choices we continue to have to make in our ever more complicated economy. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Selected Writings of John Stuart Mill and On Liberty. English philosopher and politician JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) was one of the foremost figure of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century. He served as an administrator in the East Indian Company from 1823 to 1858, and as a member of parliament from 1865 to 1868. Among his essays on a wide range of political and social thought are On Liberty (1859), Considerations on Representative Government (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869). |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 55
Página 11
... enabled to divest themselves of all labor except that of government and superintendence , and acquire dependents to fight for them in war and to serve them in peace . One of the features of this state of society is , that a part of the ...
... enabled to divest themselves of all labor except that of government and superintendence , and acquire dependents to fight for them in war and to serve them in peace . One of the features of this state of society is , that a part of the ...
Página 13
... enable them to support life until another harvest . Under the régime in question , though the bulk of the popula- tion are ill provided for , the government , by collecting small contributions from great numbers , is enabled , with any ...
... enable them to support life until another harvest . Under the régime in question , though the bulk of the popula- tion are ill provided for , the government , by collecting small contributions from great numbers , is enabled , with any ...
Página 15
... enable them to do which , a great portion of the powers of government are usually made over simultaneously , to be exercised by them until either the districts are redeemed , or their receipts have liquidated the debt . Thus , the ...
... enable them to do which , a great portion of the powers of government are usually made over simultaneously , to be exercised by them until either the districts are redeemed , or their receipts have liquidated the debt . Thus , the ...
Página 24
... enabled them , by turning a handle , to make one of the stones revolve upon the other ; and this process , a little improved , is still the common practice of the East . The muscular exertion , however , which it required , was very ...
... enabled them , by turning a handle , to make one of the stones revolve upon the other ; and this process , a little improved , is still the common practice of the East . The muscular exertion , however , which it required , was very ...
Página 31
... enable any considerable community to support itself wholly by agriculture . A country like England or France is only ... enabled to produce so many other things besides food , because the food which was in store at the close of the last ...
... enable any considerable community to support itself wholly by agriculture . A country like England or France is only ... enabled to produce so many other things besides food , because the food which was in store at the close of the last ...
Contenido
1 | |
9 | |
23 | |
29 | |
44 | |
51 | |
On Circulating and Fixed Capital | 90 |
On what depends the degree of Productiveness | 99 |
Of Slavery | 241 |
Continuation of the same subject | 272 |
Of Metayers | 289 |
Of Cottiers | 305 |
Means of abolishing Cottier Tenancy | 315 |
Of Popular Remedies for Low Wages | 345 |
The Remedies for Low Wages further con | 357 |
Of the Differences of Wages in different Employ | 369 |
5 | 106 |
Of Cooperation or the Combination of Labor | 113 |
Advantages and disadvantages of the jointstock principle | 134 |
Large and small farming compared | 142 |
Of the Law of the Increase of Labor | 152 |
Of the Law of the Increase of Capital | 159 |
Of the Law of the Increase of Production from | 173 |
Consequence of the foregoing Laws | 186 |
BOOK II | 196 |
The same subject continued | 213 |
Of the Classes among whom the Produce is dis | 231 |
Effect on wages of a class of subsidized competitors | 378 |
Wages of women why lower than those of men | 384 |
Of Rent | 405 |
tural produce | 416 |
Of Demand and Supply in their relation to Value | 426 |
Of Cost of Production in its relation to Value | 434 |
Ultimate Analysis of Cost of Production | 440 |
Of Rent in its Relation to Value | 451 |
Cases of extra profit analogous to rent | 458 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
accumulation Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount Arthur Young capital capitalist cause circulating capital commodities competition condition considerable consumed consumption cost of production cottier cultivation degree demand depends diminished duction Economy of France effect employment England equal equivalent exertion exist expense farmer farms favorable fixed France funds greater habits human hundred quarters improvement increase individual industry interest Ireland kind labor employed laboring classes land landlord less limited mankind manufactures manure material means ment métayer mode nature necessary objects obtained occupation operations paid peasant proprietors permanent persons plough political economy Poor Law population portion possession present principle productive labor profit proportion quantity quired rate of profit remuneration render rent saving Sismondi slavery society soil subsistence sufficient supply suppose taxes tenant things tion tivation tive Tuscany unless unproductive wages wealth whole
Pasajes populares
Página 198 - It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
Página 421 - Happily, there is nothing in the laws of Value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up ; the theory of the subject is complete...
Página 274 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Página 4 - It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.
Página 123 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 336 - The condition of the class can be bettered in no other way than by altering that proportion to their advantage ; and every scheme for their benefit which does not proceed on this as its foundation, is, for all permanent purposes, a delusion.
Página 312 - ... of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Referencias a este libro
Germany's Balanced Development: The Real Wealth of a Nation Kaevan Gazdar Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |