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Economics of J S Mill.
Hollander has produced a study that will stand for many years on the economic thought of John Stuart Mill.
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1985.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1 THE METHODOLOGICAL AND DOCTRINAL HERITAGE
- I: Introduction
- II: James Mill
- III: Ricardo's method: contrasts with James Mill
- IV: Inductivist critics of Ricardo and their reception
- V: The classical growth model
- VI: On prediction: 'the condition of the people' issue
- VII: The case of Thomas Chalmers
- VIII: The case of Mountifort Longfield
- IX: Conclusion
- 2 ON SCOPE AND METHOD
- I: Introduction
- II: On scientific method in general
- III: The new perspective on political economy
- IV: The case for 'deductive' social science
- V: 'Economic man': the case for specialization
- VI: Specialization and the problem of disturbing causes
- VII: 'Verification' and model improvement
- VIII: Political economy and prediction
- IX: On ethology and progress
- X: A comparison of Mill and Senior
- XI: The Cambridge (inductivist) critics
- XII: The universality of the method of political economy
- 3 TRANSITION TO THE PRINCIPLES
- I: The essay on method and the Principles
- II: Ricardian theory, Smithian framework
- III: The Comte connection
- IV: The strategy
- V: Summary and conclusion
- 4 THE SOURCES OF INCREASED EFFICIENCY
- I: The treatment of factual materials
- II: The historical dimension
- III: 'Qualitative' determinants of productivity
- IV: Quantitative technical relationships: scale economies
- V: Quantitative technical relationships: diminishing returns
- VI: The laws of production and distribution: political economy and knowledge
- VII: On contemporary and prospective economic progress
- VIII: Land tenure and motivation
- 5 ALLOCATION, TRADE AND DISTRIBUTION
- I: Introduction
- II: Aspects of national accounting
- III: Derived demand
- IV: Consumer behaviour
- V: Short-run price formation
- VI: Cost price and profitrate equalization.
- VII: Demand-supply and cost price: the adjustment mechanism
- VIII: Variable-cost conditions
- IX: Imperfect competition
- X: The wage and profit structure
- XI: International values
- XII: The fundamental theorem on distribution and the measure of value
- XIII: The fundamental theorem generalized
- XIV: The fundamental theorem and allocation
- 6 CAPITAL, EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH
- I: Introduction
- II: On capital and capital maintenance
- III: Aggregate employment capacity: 'demand for commodities is not demand for labour'
- IV: On machinery
- V: The wages-fund theory and economic organization
- VI: The wages-fund as equilibrium solution
- VII: The wages-fund theory: the recantation interpreted
- VIII: The wages-fund theory and the fundamental theorem on distribution
- IX: 'Statics' and 'dynamics'
- X: Capital-supply conditions and the minimum rate of return
- XI: Labour-supply conditions
- XII: The wage path
- XIII: Application to the contemporary labour market
- XIV: 'The tendency of profits to a minimum'
- XV: Secular trend and cycle
- XVI: Secular trend and the law of markets
- 7 MONEY AND BANKING: THEORY AND POLICY
- I: The law of markets: general issues
- II: The law of markets: early formulations
- III: The Principles: the cyclical context
- IV: The quantity theory
- V: Money and the rate of interest
- VI: Bank finance and the cycle: implications for monetary policy
- VII: On the control of central banking
- VIII: Concluding note
- 8 ON UTILITY AND LIBERTY
- I: Introduction: the Schumpeterian version of Benthamism
- II: The Benthamite position: a summary statement
- III: The greatest happiness principle: the reaction from Bentham
- IV: The greatest happiness principle post-1840: the return to Bentham
- V: The return to Bentham continued: on 'utilitarianism' and the status of justice.
- VI: The greatest happiness principle: some comparisons and problems
- VII: Liberty, utility and social control
- VIII: The labour problem and private property: some preliminary implications
- IX: On compensation
- X: Utility versus natural rights: applications to labour and property
- 9 ECONOMIC POLICY: THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- I: Introduction
- II: The case for 'free trade'
- III: Government provision: negative considerations
- IV: The case from liberty: consumer choice
- V: Market failure
- VI: Elementary education
- VII: 'Superior' education
- VIII: Professional training
- IX: Mill and education: an overview
- X: Foreign trade policy
- XI: Government and economic development
- XII: Population control, poor relief and full employment policy
- XIII: On local and central administration
- XIV: The labour market: regulation of hours and unions
- XV: Colonization
- XVI: Monopoly and the state
- XVII: Patent protection
- XVIII: Summary: progress and the state
- 10 ECONOMIC POLICY: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
- I: Introduction
- II: Aspects of the indictment of capitalism
- III: The Communist solution
- IV: The Saint-Simonian and Fourierist solutions
- V: Profit-sharing
- VI: Co-operation: prospects and advantages
- VII: The collectivist option rejected
- VIII: On Socialism: summary
- 11 ECONOMIC POLICY: THE REFORM PROGRAMME
- I: Introduction
- II: Equality of opportunity and property rights
- III: Land reform: distributive aspects
- IV: Land reform: efficiency aspects
- V: Land reform: Ireland
- VI: On endowment and property rights
- VII: Income distribution and public finance
- VIII: On inheritance
- IX: Limitations on bequests and distribution: diminishing utility
- X: The desirability of economic development and the stationary state
- XI: The condition of the people: the poverty trap and the solution.
- XII: The condition of the people: trade unionism
- XIII: Mill and 'bourgeois' bias
- CONCLUSION: SOME CENTRAL THEMES
- I: Mill, Ricardianism and the historical school
- II: Mill and neoclassicism
- III: Mill and marginal utility
- IV: Mill and mathematical economics
- V: Mill and Malthusianism
- VI: The charge of 'scientism'
- VII: The empirical dimension: on the 'reality' of axioms and model improvement
- Appendix: Attitudes towards Birth Control
- Appendix: The Hubbard Issue
- Appendix: On the Socialist Conference
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.