Selected Economic Writings (1966)

A collection of Mill’s writings on economics, including his early essays on The Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain, Commerce Defended, and selections from his Elements of Political Economy and his History of British India.
Selected Economic Writings, ed. Donald Winch (Edinburgh: Oliver Boyd for the Scottish Economic Society, 1966).
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- CONTENTS
- I.: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
- II.: EARLY ECONOMIC WRITINGS: 1804-1808
- 1. An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain (1804)
- 2. Commerce Defended (1807)
- 3. ‘Thomas Smith on Money and Exchange’, Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1808
- An ESSAY of the IMPOLICY of a BOUNTY on the EXPORTATION of GRAIN
- An ESSAY of the IMPOLICY of a BOUNTY on the EXPORTATION of GRAIN;
- INTRODUCTION
- ESSAY ON THE CORN LAWS
- CHAP. I: Of the History of the Corn Laws
- CHAP. II: Influence of the Principle of Population upon the Corn Trade
- CHAP. III: Effects of the Bounty on the Rent of Land
- CHAP. IV: Effects of the Bounty on the Profits of the Farmer
- CHAP. V: Effects of the Bounty on the Value of Silver
- CHAP. VI: Exportation
- CHAP. VII: Importation
- CHAP. VIII: Landlords, Farmers, and Corn-dealers
- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY ON IMPOLICY
- COMMERCE DEFENDED.
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I: ON THE SECURITY OR INSECURITY OF THE BRITISH COMMERCE
- CHAPTER II: ON LAND, AS A SOURCE OF WEALTH
- CHAPTER III: OF THE DEFINITION OF THE TERMS WEALTH AND PROSPERITY
- CHAPTER IV: OF MANUFACTURES
- CHAPTER V: COMMERCE
- ARTICLE FIRST, COMMERCE OF IMPORT
- ARTICLE SECOND; COMMERCE OF EXPORT
- CHAPTER VI: CONSUMPTION
- CHAPTER VII: OF THE NATIONAL DEBT
- CHAPTER VIII: GENERAL REFLECTIONS
- SMITH ON MONEY AND EXCHANGE
- Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1808, vol. 13, no. XXV, pp. 50–68
- III.: JAMES MILL AND DAVID RICARDO
- 1. The Elements of Political Economy
- 2. Population and Wages
- 3. Taxes on Rent
- ELEMENTS of POLITICAL ECONOMY,
- PREFACE
- PREFACE (to the 2nd edn.)
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION THE SUBJECT—ITS LIMITS—AND DIVISION
- CHAPTER I: PRODUCTION
- section I: Labour
- section II: Capital
- CHAPTER II: DISTRIBUTION
- section I: Rent5
- section II: Wages
- 1. That the rate of wages depends on the proportion between Population, and Employment, in other words, Capital
- 2. Proof of the tendency of Population to increase rapidly
- 3. Proof that capital has a less tendency than Population to increase rapidly
- 4. That forcible means employed to make capital increase faster than its natural tendency would not produce desirable effects
- section III: Profits
- CHAPTER III: INTERCHANGE
- section I: Nature of the Advantage Derived from the Interchange of Commodities, and the Principal Agents Employed in it
- section II: What Determines the Quantity in Which Commodities Exchange for One Another
- section III: Effect Upon Exchangeable Values of a Fluctuation in Wages and Profits
- section IV: Occasions on Which it is the Interest of Nations to Exchange Commodities with One Another
- section V: The Commodities Imported are the Cause of the Benefits Derived from a Foreign Trade
- section VI: Convenience of a Particular Commodity, as a Medium of Exchange
- section VII: What Regulates the Value of Money
- section VIII: What Regulates the Quantity of Money
- section IX29: The Effect of Employing Two Metals Both as Standard Money, and of Using Subsidiary Coins, at Less Than the Metallic Value
- section X: Substitutes for Money
- section XI: Advantages Derived from the Use of Paper Money
- section XII: Inconveniences to Which the Use of Paper Money is Liable
- section XIII: The Value of the Precious Metals in each Country Determines Whether it shall Export or Import
- section XIV: The Value of the Precious Metal, or Medium of Exchange, which Determines Exportation, is not the same in all Countries
- Section XV: Mode in which the Precious Metal, or Medium of Exchange, Distributes itself Among the Nations of the Globe
- section XVI: Money Transactions between Nations—Bills of Exchange
- section XVII: Bounties and Prohibitions
- Section XVIII: Colonies
- CHAPTER IV: CONSUMPTION
- section I: Of Productive and Unproductive Consumption
- section II: That which is Annually Produced is Annually Consumed
- SECTION III: That Consumption is Co-Extensive with Production
- section IV: In What Manner Government Consumes
- section V: Taxes on Rent
- section VI: A Tax on Profits
- section VII55: A Tax on Wages
- section VIII12: Direct Taxes which are Destined to fall Equally upon all Sources of Income
- section IX: Taxes on Commodities; Either some Particular Commodities; or all Commodities Equally
- section X: A Tax upon the Produce of the Land
- section XI58: A Tax upon the Profits of the Farmer, and upon Agricultural Instruments
- section XII: Tithes and Poor Rates
- section XIII: A Tax per Acre on the Land
- section XIV: Taxes upon the Transfer of Property
- section XV: Law Taxes
- section XVI: Taxes on Money, and the Precious Metals
- section XVII: Effects of the Taxation of Commodities upon the Value of Money, and the Employment of Capital
- IV.: MILL ON SCOPE AND METHOD
- WHETHER POLITICAL ECONOMY IS USEFUL London Review, Jan. 1836, vol. II, pp. 553–572.
- V.: JAMES MILL AND INDIA
- 1. The History of British India
- 2. James Mill and the Indian Revenue System
- Exracts from the HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA
- BOOK II OF THE HINDUS
- CHAPTER I: Chronology and Ancient History of the Hindus
- CHAPTER II: Classification and Distribution of the People
- CHAPTER III: The Form of Government
- CHAPTER IV: The Laws
- CHAPTER V: The Taxes
- Extracts from Oral Evidence and Memoranda submitted by James Mill to the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company 1831 and 1832
- (a) Land Revenue
- 2 Aug.
- 4 Aug.
- 9 Aug.
- 11 Aug.
- 19 Aug.
- (b) Other Sources of Revenue
- (c) The Employment of Natives in the Company's Service
- 25 Aug. 1831 (Parliamentary Papers, vol. VII, p. 396)
- 21 Feb. 1832 (Parliamentary Papers, vol. IX, p. 56)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Letters and Manuscripts
- Books and Pamphlets
- Articles
- 1. Supplement to the 4th, 5th and 6th editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Edinburgh, 1824, 6 volumes.
- 2. Parliamentary History and Review, London, 1826
- 3. Edinburgh Review
- 4. The Westminster Review
- 5. The London Review
- 6. The Monthly Review
- 7. The Eclectic Review
- 8. The Literary Journal or Universal Review of Literature Domestic and Foreign
- 9. Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808, vol. VII
- 10. The British Review
- 11. Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
- 12. The Philanthropist
- INDEX
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