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Title: Principles Of Political Economy

Author: John Stuart Mill

Release Date: September 27, 2009 [Ebook #30107]

Language: English


***START OF THE PROJECT BookishMall.com EBOOK PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY***

Principles Of Political Economy

By

John Stuart Mill

Abridged, with Critical, Bibliographical,

and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch

of the History of Political Economy,

By

J. Laurence Laughlin, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of Political Economy in Harvard University

A Text-Book For Colleges.

New York:

D. Appleton And Company,

1, 3, and 5 Bond Street.

1885

Contents

  • Preface.
  • Introductory.
  • A Sketch Of The History Of Political Economy.
  • Books For Consultation (From English, French, And German Authors).
  • Preliminary Remarks.
  • Book I. Production.
  • Chapter I. Of The Requisites Of Production.
  • § 1. The requisites of production.
  • § 2. The Second Requisite of Production, Labor.
  • § 3. Of Capital as a Requisite of Production.
  • Chapter II. Of Unproductive Labor.
  • § 1. Definition of Productive and Unproductive Labor.
  • § 2. Productive and Unproductive Consumption.
  • § 3. Distinction Between Labor for the Supply of Productive Consumption and Labor for the Supply of Unproductive Consumption.
  • Chapter III. Of Capital.
  • § 1. Capital is Wealth Appropriated to Reproductive Employment.
  • § 2. More Capital Devoted to Production than Actually Employed in it.
  • § 3. Examination of Cases Illustrative of the Idea of Capital.
  • Chapter IV. Fundamental Propositions Respecting Capital.
  • § 1. Industry is Limited by Capital.
  • § 2. Increase of Capital gives Increased Employment to Labor, Without Assignable Bounds.
  • § 3. Capital is the result of Saving, and all Capital is Consumed.
  • § 4. Capital is kept up by Perpetual Reproduction, as shown by the Recovery of Countries from Devastation.
  • § 5. Effects of Defraying Government Expenditure by Loans.
  • § 6. Demand for Commodities is not Demand for Labor.
  • Chapter V. On Circulating And Fixed Capital.
  • § 1. Fixed and Circulating Capital.
  • § 2. Increase of Fixed Capital, when, at the Expense of Circulating, might be Detrimental to the Laborers.
  • § 3. —This seldom, if ever, occurs.
  • Chapter VI. Of Causes Affecting The Efficiency Of Production.
  • § 1.