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1st Edition

James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and the History of Economic Thought

Edited By Masatomi Fujimoto, John Vint, Taro Hisamatsu Copyright 2024
262 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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’

HELEN MCCABE

Biography

Masatomi Fujimoto is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan. He edited Ricardo and International Trade (with Shigeyoshi Senga and Taichi Tabuchi, Routledge, 2017).

John Vint is Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and Honorary Professor at Perm State University, Russia. In 1993 he won the Joseph Dorfman Award for the best dissertation in the History of Economic Thought. His book Capital and Wages was published in 1994.

Taro Hisamatsu is Professor at the Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. His articles have appeared in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economics Review, The Adam Smith Review, History of Economic Ideas, etc.

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