- Paperback: 710 pages
- Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS (Jun 15 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1591021510
- ISBN-13: 978-1591021513
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.8 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #541,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, Mill systematically demonstrated how important economic concepts could be applied to real-world situations. In his emphasis on realism, Mill thus took economics out of the realm of the abstract and placed it squarely within the context of society. For anyone with an interest in the history of economics or the history of ideas, this landmark work of classical economics makes for stimulating and in many respects still very relevant reading.
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Some Missing Details, Feb 3 2009
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Mill is the great synthesis of nineteenth-century economics. The Principles are tedious at times, but provide a generally illuminating account of the ways nineteenth-century citizens reconciled themselves to an increasingly quantified world. Mill engages usefully with most major economic theories of his time, including inheritance rights, speculation, taxation, and the well-being of the working class.If you're using this edition for a historical or otherwise scholarly project, please be aware that it's based on the 1865, rather than 1848, edition. Some of Mill's revisions are substantial.
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This book is abridged!, Mar 11 2011
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This is outrageous. It turns out this book is abridged. Isn't this the sort of thing you think the reader might want to know before buying? How perfectly moronic.
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The Hobo Philosopher, Sep 13 2007
By Richard E. Noble - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a very good and very pertinent book. If the people of the time had paid more attention to Mill as opposed to Ricardo and then Marx our world would definitely have been a safer and more peaceful place. Mill has some very sound economic ideas. His ideas are not only reasonable and rational they are possible, compassionate and much more sensible than what we have today; ideas that should be revived and reviewed today. He has a number of interesting answers to basic economic problems. If economics is your passion don't miss this one. This man is no dummy.Richard Edward Noble - The Hobo Philosopher - Author of:
"Hobo-ing America: A Workingman's Tour of the U.S.A.."
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