Vol. 7 — October 2026
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Principles of Political Economy

John Stuart Mill · English

This is John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848, in the abridged edition prepared for students by J.

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This is John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848, in the abridged edition prepared for students by J. Laurence Laughlin of Harvard University in 1884. Laughlin shortened the treatise while largely keeping Mill's wording, rewrote some sections in the light of later thinking, and added notes, charts with American examples, and an opening sketch of the history of political economy. The five books follow Mill's plan: production, distribution, exchange, the influence of social progress on production and distribution, and the influence of government, covering capital, wages, profits, rent, money, credit, international trade and taxation.

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