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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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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
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