Synopses & Reviews
Volume 1 features Mills Autobiography as well as related essays which together paint a balanced picture of his early life, including his rigorous home schooling” at the hands of his father, James Mill, and the emotional crisis of his early adulthood. Such insights are a wonderful primer for later substantive volumes of Mills work and shed light on the character of nineteenth-century Britains foremost liberal intellectual. This volume was assembled under the direction of Professor John M. Robson of the University of Toronto and includes such rare material as Mills childhood writings, examples of his early articles published in such journals as The Westminster Review and the London Review, and a youthful critique of his fathers philosophical contributions.
Synopsis
Liberty Fund is pleased to make available in paperback eight of the original thirty-three cloth volumes of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill that were first published by the University of Toronto Press that remain most relevant to liberty and responsibility in the twenty-first century. Born in London in 1806 and educated at the knee of his father, the Scottish philosopher James Mill, John Stuart Mill became one of the nineteenth century's most influential writers on economics and social philosophy.
Mill's Autobiography tells of his extraordinary education under the direct tutelage of his father, and under the indirect influence of some of England's most renowned political economic thinkers, such as Jeremy Bentham. At the tender age of three, Mill was reading Greek, and by eight years of age he was well-versed in English history, classical western philosophy, and arithmetic.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an economist, philosopher, Member of Parliament, and one of the most significant English classical liberals of the nineteenth century. Mill spent most of his working life with the East India Company, which he joined at age sixteen and worked for for thirty-eight years. He is also the author of On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Introduction xv
Part 1 Austro-Hungarian Monetary and Fiscal Policy Issues
Before the First World War
1 The Political-Economic Motives of the Austrian
Currency Reform 3
2 The Problem of Legal Resumption of Specie
Payments in Austria-Hungary 31
3 The Foreign Exchange Policy of the
Austro-Hungarian Bank 83
4 On the Problem of Legal Resumption of
Specie Payments in Austria-Hungary:
A Reply to Walther Federn 95
5 The Fourth Issuing Right of the
Austro-Hungarian Bank 104
6 Financial Reform in Austria 117
7 The General Rise in Prices in the Light of
Economic Theory 131
8 On Rising Prices and Purchasing Power Policies 156
9 Disturbances in the Economic Life of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy During the
Years 1912–1913 168
Part 2 Economic Policy Issues in the Midst of the Great War
10 On the Goals of Trade Policy 185
11 Inflation 209
12 On Paying for the Costs of War and War Loans 216
13 Remarks Concerning the Problem of Emigration 227
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Part 3 Austrian Fiscal and Monetary Problems in the
Post-War Period
14 Monetary Devaluation and the National Budget 235
15 For the Reintroduction of Normal Stock Market
Practices in Foreign Exchange Dealings 240
16 On Carl Menger’s Eightieth Birthday 244
17 How Can Austria Be Saved? An Economic Policy
Program for Austria 248
18 The Claims of Note Holders upon Liquidation
of the Bank 252
19 The Austrian Currency Problem Thirty Years Ago
and Today 259
20 The Restoration of Austria’s Economic Situation 264
21 The Austrian Problem 271
22 The Gold-Exchange Standard 274
23 The Social Democratic Agrarian Program 279
24 America and the Reconstruction of the
European Economy 282
25 The Currency and Finances of the Federal
State of Austria 287
26 The Economic Crisis and Lessons for Banking Policy 296
Part 4 Interventionism, Collectivism, and Their Ideological Roots
27 The Economic System of Interventionism 303
28 Economic Order and the Political System 308
29 Remarks Concerning the Ideological Roots of the
Monetary Catastrophe of 1923 316
Appendixes
A. Maxims for the Discussion of the Methodological
Problems of the Social Sciences: Paper Delivered
at the Private Seminar 325
B. Short Curriculum Vitae of Mayer Rachmiel Mises
of Lemberg 333
Index 337