Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death, this volume analyses the Mills’ discussions on topics such as environment, cultivation, education, utilitarianism, socialism, international relations, international trade, and living standard.
John Stuart Mill is an important figure of the classical political economy, and his father played a critical role in the early stages of his intellectual development. The contributions of the two Mills are examined by leading scholars on the theory and history of economics from Japan, UK, and France. They not only deal with the Mills’ individual contributions but also shed light on their relationships and associations with a number of economists and philosophers in Britain between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries, including Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Pennington, Torrens, Martineau, Longfield, Morris, Sidgwick, and Marshall.
This book is an essential read for scholars interested in the economics of James and John Mill, and reconsideration of their theories and thoughts using the backdrop of the current state of society.
CONTENTS List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction MASATOMI FUJIMOTO, JOHN VINT, AND TARO HISAMATSU PART I Cultivation and Education 1 John Stuart Mill and the Stationary State GREGORY CLAEYS 2 James and John Stuart Mill on Education RENEE PRENDERGAST PART II Utilitarianism 3 The Felicific Calculus and the Art of Life according to James and John Stuart Mill VICTOR BIANCHINI 4 John Stuart Mill, Sidgwick and the Philosophical Foundations of Political Economy DAISUKE NAKAI PART III International Relations and Trade 5 John Stuart Mill on Britain’s Dependencies: Focusing on its Military Expenditure in the Nineteenth Century YOSHIFUMI OZAWA 6 ‘I profess to have made no discovery’: James Mill on Comparative Advantage GILBERT FACCARELLO 7 James Mill and the Alleged Error in Ricardo TARO HISAMATSU 8 John Stuart Mill as the Founder of Theory of Reciprocal Demand MASATOMI FUJIMOTO PART IV Work and Life 9 The Wage Theory of John Stuart Mill in Light of Malthus and Ricardo SYUNSUKE MOROIZUMI & MASASHI IZUMO 10 Alfred Marshall’s Acceptance and Deviation from John Stuart Mill MASASHI KONDO 11 James Mill, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Martineau: Connections, Disconnections and Convergence JOHN VINT 12 John Stuart Mill’s ‘Qualified Socialism’ HELEN MCCABE
Masatomi Fujimoto is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan. He edited Ricardo and International Trade (with Shigeyoshi Senga and Taichi Tabuchi, Routledge, 2017). John Vint is Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and Honorary Professor at Perm State University, Russia. In 1993 he won the Joseph Dorfman Award for the best dissertation in the History of Economic Thought. His book Capital and Wages was published in 1994. Taro Hisamatsu is Professor at the Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. His articles have appeared in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economics Review, The Adam Smith Review, History of Economic Ideas, etc.
