Archive for John Stuart Mill
The Consumer Theory of Prosperity
These excerpts, selected by Henry Hazlitt for quotation in The Failure of the "New Economics" (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1959) are from Mill’s Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy written in 1830. Among the mistakes [of the pre-classical writers] which were most pernicious in their direct consequences… was the immense importance attached to [...]
1Oct1959 | John Stuart Mill | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Liberty
Man’s right to think and act for himself is more in jeopardy today than in 1859, when Mill published the famed essay from which these paragraphs are selected.* * The Regnery paperbacked edition of Mill’s On Liberty is available through the Foundation. 148 pp. 85 cents. As the tendency of all the changes taking place [...]
1Apr1956 | John Stuart Mill | 1 comment | Continued-
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