Principles of political economy: with some of their applications to social philosophy

John Stuart Mill

Longmans, Green, 1894 - Economics - 591 pages

Contents

• Pkxuuinart Remarks: 1
• The precious metals as money are of the same value and dis: 3
• Requisites of production what: 15
• Labour does not produce objects but utilities: 28
• Of Capital: 34
• Industry is limited by Capital: 39
• but does not always come up to that limit: 41
• Capital is the result of saving: 43
• All capital is consumed: 44
• Capital is kept up not by preservation but by perpetual repro duction: 46
• Why countries recover rapidly from a state of devastation: 47
• Demand for commodities is not demand for labour: 49
• Fallacy respecting Taxation: 55
• Fixed and Circulating Capital what: 57
• Increase of fixed capital when at the expense of circulating might be detrimental to the labourers: 58
• but this seldom if ever occurs: 61
• Land labour and capital are of different productiveness at diffe rent times and places: 63
• greater energy of labour: 65
• superior skill and knowledge: 66
• superiority of intelligence and trustworthiness in the commu nity generally: 67
• superior security: 70
• Combination of Labour a principal cause of superior productiveness: 71
• Effects of separation of employments analysed: 73
• Combination of labour between town and country: 74
• The higher degrees of the division of labour: 75
• Analysis of its advantnges: 77
• Limitations of the division of labour: 80
• Of Production on a Large and Production on a Small Scale 1 Advantages of the large system of production in manufactures: 81
• Advantages and disadvantages of the jointstock principle: 84
• Conditions necessary for the large system of production: 87
• Large and small farming compared: 89
• The law of the increase of production depends on those of three elements Labour Capital and Land: 96
• The Law of Population: 97
• By what checks the increase of population is practically limited: 98
• Of the Law of the Increase of Production: 109
• Consequences of the foregoing Laws: 117
• BOOK II: 123
• The institution of property implies freedom of acquisition by con: 133
• The produce sometimes shared among three classes 145: 145
• Of Slavery: 151
• BOOK III: 157
• Influence of peasant properties in stimulating industry: 171
• Nature of the metayer system and its varieties: 183
• Nature and operation of cottier tenure: 193
• Irish cottiers should be converted into peasant proprietors: 199
• Of Wages: 207
• A legal or customary minimum of wages with a guarantee: 218
• The Remedies jbr Low Wages farther: 225
• Of the Differences of Wages in different: 233
• Of Profit: 245
• Of Value: 255
• Utility and Difficulty of Attainment: 268
• Commodities which are susceptible of indefinite multiplication: 274
• Commodities which are susceptible of indefinite multiplication: 285
• Value of Money an ambiguous expression: 297
• Of the Value of Money as dependent: 303
• J Credit not a creation but a transfer of the means of production: 309
• Influence of Credit on Prices: 317
• The value of an inconvertible paper depending on its quantity: 328
• Of Excess of Supply: 336
• Of a Measure of Value: 342
• Cost of production not the regulator of international values: 347
• Money imported in two modes as a commodity and as a medium: 367
• metals as a commodity: 370
• Of the Distribution of the Precious Metals: 374
• Influence of Currency on the Exchanges: 380
• Of the Regulation of a Convertible: 391
• Of the Competition of different Countries: 410
• Exchange and Money make no difference in the law of wages: 416
• INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY: 421
• Influence of the Progress of Industry: 430
• Doctrine of Adam Smith on the competition of capital: 439
• Abstraction of capital not necessarily a national loss: 448
• The theory of dependence and protection no longer applicable: 455
• ON THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT: 479
• Direct taxes either on income or on expenditure: 495
• Of Taxes on Commoditiei: 504
• Of some other Taxes: 517
• Is it desirable to defray extraordinary public expenses by loans?: 526
• Laws of Inheritance: 536
• Law of compulsory equal division of inheritance: 540
• Laws of Partnership: 541
• Partnerships with limited liability Chartered Companies: 542
• Partnerships in commandite: 545
• Laws relatmg to insolvency: 548
• Of Interferences of Government grounded on Erroneous Theories 1 Doctrine of Protection to Native Industry: 552
• Usury Laws: 559
• Attempts to regulate the prices of commodities: 561
• Monopolies: 562
• Laws against Combination of Workmen: 563
• Restraints on opinion or on its publication: 566
• Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisserfavrt or Noninterference Principle 1 Governmental intervention distinguished into authoritative and unauth...: 567
• Objections to government interventionthe compulsory character of the intervention itself or of the levy of funds to support it: 568
• increase of the power and influence of government: 570
• superior efficiency of private agency owing to stronger interest in the work: 571
• importance of cultivating habits of collective action in the people: 572
• Lais serf aire the general rule: 573
• but liable to large exceptions Cases in which the consumer is an incompetent judge of the commodity Education: 575
• Case of persons exercising power over others Protection of chil dren and young persons of the lower animals Case of women not analogous: 577
• Case of contracts in perpetuity: 579
• hours of labour disposal of colonial lands: 581
• Case of acts done for the benefit of others than the persons con cerned Poor Laws: 584
• Colonization: 585
• other miscellaneous examples: 589
• Government intervention may be necessary in default of private agency in cases where nrivate agency would be more suitable: 590

Bibliographic information

• Title: Principles of political economy: with some of their applications to social philosophy
• Author: John Stuart Mill
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, 1894
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 25, 2007
• Length: 591 pages
• Subjects: Economics