John Stuart Mill’s Road to Leviathan: Early Life and Influences

Michael R. Montgomery ()
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Michael R. Montgomery: University of Maine

Chapter Chapter 8 in Handbook of the History of Economic Thought, 2012, pp 179-204 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was, during the middle third of the nineteenth century, the world’s leading economist and also arguably the world’s leading intellectual. Mill’s collected works are massive, spanning not only economics but also philosophy, political science, psychology, and the entire range of social science (e.g. his The Subjection of Women is a founding feminist tract). Among major economists, only Adam Smith could conceivably be ranked with Mill in breadth of focus and power to integrate different fields of study into a powerful argument (David Hume conceivably outranks Mill in overall contribution to social science, but Hume is not usually considered to be a major economist).

Keywords: Political Economy; Major Economist; Book Versus; Conditional Truth; Classical Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8336-7_8

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