The Utilitarian Maximand II: On Imperialism and Related Issues

Samuel Hollander

Chapter 9 in John Stuart Mill:Political Economist, 2015, pp 386-423 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The government of a people by itself has a meaning, and a reality; but such a thing as government of one people by another does not and cannot exist. One people may keep another as a warren or preserve for its own use, a place to make money in, a human cattle-farm, to be worked for the profit of its own inhabitants. But if the good of the governed is the proper business of a government, it is utterly impossible that a people should directly attend to it. The utmost they can do is to give some of their best men a commission to look after it; to whom the opinion of their own country can neither be much of a guide in the performance of their duty, nor a competent judge of the mode in which it has been performed. (Representative Government; 1861c, p. 569)…

Keywords: Classical Economics; Distributive Justice; Economic Policy; Hayek; Liberalism; Market Failure; Mill; Socialism; Utilitarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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