Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
John Stuart Mill
Read by Gary Gilberd
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free market capitalism, to government intervention within the precepts of Utilitarianism, and finally to Socialism. [Summary written by Gary Gilberd]
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| Preface and Contents | 3:49 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 1 Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations pt. 1 | 30:53 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 1 Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations pt. 2 | 32:41 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 1 Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations pt. 3 | 26:40 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 2 Of the Influence of Consumption upon Production pt. 1 | 27:07 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 2 Of the Influence of Consumption upon Production pt. 2 | 31:13 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 3 On the Words Productive and Unproductive | 24:20 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 4 On Profits, and Interest pt. 1 | 31:29 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 4 On Profits, and Interest pt. 2 | 28:23 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 5 On the Definition of Political Economy pt. 1 | 35:11 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 5 On the Definition of Political Economy pt. 2 | 33:17 | Read by Gary Gilberd | |
| Ch. 5 On the Definition of Political Economy pt. 3 | 23:59 | Read by Gary Gilberd |