Principles of Political Economy -

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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).

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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
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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.

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