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Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes

John Stuart Mill · Public domain text

238,311 words · about 16 h 41 min to read

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Author
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
Language
English
Subjects
Economics
Length
238,311 words · about 16 h 41 min
Sections
52 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (52)
  1. Opening about 13 min
  2. Preface about 49 min
  3. I. Of The Requisites Of Production about 9 min
  4. II. Of Unproductive Labor about 6 min
  5. III. Of Capital about 13 min
  6. IV. Fundamental Propositions Respecting Capital about 30 min
  7. V. On Circulating And Fixed Capital about 8 min
  8. VI. Of Causes Affecting The Efficiency Of Production about 19 min
  9. VII. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Labor about 10 min
  10. VIII. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Capital about 13 min
  11. IX. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Production From Land about 21 min
  12. X. Consequences Of The Foregoing Laws about 13 min
  13. I. Of Property about 27 min
  14. II. Of Wages about 27 min
  15. III. Of Remedies For Low Wages about 17 min
  16. IV. Of The Differences Of Wages In Different Employments about 15 min
  17. V. Of Profits about 26 min
  18. VI. Of Rent about 22 min
  19. I. Of Value about 23 min
  20. II. Ultimate Analysis Of Cost Of Production about 22 min
  21. III. Of Rent, In Its Relation To Value about 14 min
  22. IV. Of Money about 12 min
  23. V. Of The Value Of Money, As Dependent On Demand And Supply about 12 min
  24. VI. Of The Value Of Money, As Dependent On Cost Of Production about 13 min
  25. VII. Of A Double Standard And Subsidiary Coins about 21 min
  26. VIII. Of Credit, As A Substitute For Money about 15 min
  27. IX. Influence Of Credit On Prices about 14 min
  28. X. Of An Inconvertible Paper Currency about 31 min
  29. XI. Of Excess Of Supply about 9 min
  30. XII. Of Some Peculiar Cases Of Value about 8 min
  31. XIII. Of International Trade about 21 min
  32. XIV. Of International Values about 20 min
  33. XV. Of Money Considered As An Imported Commodity about 7 min
  34. XVI. Of The Foreign Exchanges about 12 min
  35. XVII. Of The Distribution Of The Precious Metals Through The Commercial World about 15 min
  36. XVIII. Influence Of The Currency On The Exchanges And On Foreign Trade about 14 min
  37. XIX. Of The Rate Of Interest about 15 min
  38. XX. Of The Competition Of Different Countries In The Same Market about 23 min
  39. XXI. Of Distribution, As Affected By Exchange about 10 min
  40. I. Influence Of The Progress Of Industry And Population On Values And Prices about 22 min
  41. II. Influence Of The Progress Of Industry And Population On Rents, Profits, And Wages about 11 min
  42. III. Of The Tendency Of Profits To A Minimum about 21 min
  43. IV. Consequences Of The Tendency Of Profits To A Minimum, And The Stationary State about 10 min
  44. V. On The Possible Futurity Of The Laboring-Classes about 25 min
  45. I. On The General Principles Of Taxation about 19 min
  46. II. Of Direct Taxes about 16 min
  47. III. Of Taxes On Commodities, Or Indirect Taxes about 32 min
  48. IV. Comparison Between Direct And Indirect Taxation about 17 min
  49. V. Of A National Debt about 11 min
  50. VI. Of An Interference Of Government Grounded On Erroneous Theories about 1 h 26 min
  51. Part 1 under 1 min
  52. Part 2 about 1 h 4 min

The opening of Preface

An experience of five years with Mr. Mill’s treatise in the class-room not only convinced me of the great usefulness of what still remains one of the most lucid and systematic books yet published which cover the whole range of the study, but I have also been convinced of the need of such additions as should give the results of later thinking, without militating against the general tenor of Mr. Mill’s system; of such illustrations as should fit it better for American students, by turning their attention to the application of principles in the facts around us; of a bibliography which should make it easier to get at the writers of other schools who offer opposing views on controverted questions; and of some attempts to lighten those parts of his work in which Mr. Mill frightened away the reader by an appearance of too great abstractness, and to render them, if possible, more easy of comprehension to the student who first approaches Political Economy through this author.

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