From the laws of human nature to capital accumulation: James Mill's analysis of the states of society in the Elements of Political Economy

Victor Bianchini ()
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Victor Bianchini: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: James Mill's Elements of Political Economy is usually treated as a textbook of Ricardian political economy. Although this might be justified, there is a passage in this Ricardian textbook that is not Ricardian. The passage deals with Mill's analysis of the states of society, in which he underlines the laws of human nature conducive to capital accumulation. This paper investigates such states.

Keywords: James Mill; states of society; human nature; capital accumulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09-30
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Published in European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 22 (5), pp.852-871. ⟨10.1080/09672567.2015.1073767⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2015.1073767

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