The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill E-Book

John Stuart Mill

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 7084

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 8300 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • On Liberty • Utilitarianism • Principles Of Political Economy • A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • Considerations on Representative Government • Autobiography • Auguste Comte and Positivism • The Subjection of Women • Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy • The Contest in America • Socialism • John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works • A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of LogicW. Stebbing • A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive • PEACE • CULTURE AND WAR • THE COMPARATIVE • MORALITY OF NATIONS • THE "COMIC-PAPER" QUESTION • MR. FROUDE AS A LECTURER • MR. HORACE GREELEY • THE MORALS AND MANNERS OF THE KITCHEN • PANICS • THE ODIUM PHILOLOGICUM • PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S LECTURES • CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE • TYNDALL AND THE THEOLOGIANS • THE CHURCH AND SCIENCE • THE CHURCH AND GOOD CONDUCT RÔLE OF THE UNIVERSITIES • IN POLITICS THE HOPKINS UNIVERSITY • THE SOUTH AFTER • THE WAR CHROMO-CIVILIZATION " • THE SHORT-HAIRS" AND "THE SWALLOW-TAILS" • JUDGES AND WITNESSES • "THE DEBTOR CLASS" • COMMENCEMENT ADMONITION • "ORGANS" EVIDENCE ABOUT CHARACTER • PHYSICAL FORCE IN POLITICS • "COURT CIRCLES" • LIVING IN EUROPE AND GOING TO IT CARLYLE'S POLITICAL INFLUENCE • THE EVOLUTION OF THE SUMMER RESORT • SUMMER REST • THE SURVIVAL OF TYPES • WILL WIMBLES • etc.

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Table of Contents

On Liberty.

INTRODUCTION.I.

II.

III.

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II.OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III.OF INDIVIDUALITY, AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING.

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IV.OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER V.APPLICATIONS.

ESSAYS ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ESSAY I.

OF THE LAWS OF INTERCHANGE BETWEEN NATIONS; AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE GAINS OF COMMERCE AMONG THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD.

ESSAY II.

OF THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMPTION ON PRODUCTION.

ESSAY III.

ON THE WORDS PRODUCTIVE AND UNPRODUCTIVE.

ESSAY IV.

ON PROFITS, AND INTEREST.

ESSAY V.

ON THE DEFINITION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY; AND ON THE METHOD OF INVESTIGATION PROPER TO IT.

Principles Of Political Economy

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 are Two: Labor, and Appropriate Natural Objects.

§ 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. General Causes of Superior Productiveness.

§ 2. Combination and Division of Labor Increase Productiveness.

§ 3. Advantages of Division of Labor.

§ 4. Production on a Large and Production on a Small Scale.

Chapter VII. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Labor.

§ 1. The Law of the Increase of Production Depends on those of Three Elements—Labor. Capital, and Land.

§ 2. The Law of Population.

§ 3. By what Checks the Increase of Population is Practically Limited.

Chapter VIII. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Capital.

§ 1. Means for Saving in the Surplus above Necessaries.

§ 2. Motive for Saving in the Surplus above Necessaries.

§ 3. Examples of Deficiency in the Strength of this Desire.

§ 4. Examples of Excess of this Desire.

Chapter IX. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Production From Land.

§ 1. The Law of Production from the Soil, a Law of Diminishing Return in Proportion to the Increased Application of Labor and Capital.

§ 2. Antagonist Principle to the Law of Diminishing Return; the Progress of Improvements in Production.

§ 3. —In Railways.

§ 4. —In Manufactures.

§ 5. Law Holds True of Mining.

Chapter X. Consequences Of The Foregoing Laws.

§ 1. Remedies for Weakness of the Principle of Accumulation.

§ 2. Even where the Desire to Accumulate is Strong, Population must be Kept within the Limits of Population from Land.

§ 3. Necessity of Restraining Population not superseded by Free Trade in Food.

§ 4. —Nor by Emigration.

Book II. Distribution.

Chapter I. Of Property.

§ 1. Individual Property and its opponents.

§ 2. The case for Communism against private property presented.

§ 3. The Socialists who appeal to state-help.

§ 4. Of various minor schemes, Communistic and Socialistic.

§ 5. The Socialist objections to the present order of Society examined.

§ 6. Property in land different from property in Movables.

Chapter II. Of Wages.

§ 1. Of Competition and Custom.

§ 2. The Wages-fund, and the Objections to it Considered.

§ 3. Examination of some popular Opinions respecting Wages.

§ 4. Certain rare Circumstances excepted, High Wages imply Restraints on Population.

§ 5. Due Restriction of Population the only Safeguard of a Laboring-Class.

Chapter III. Of Remedies For Low Wages.

§ 1. A Legal or Customary Minimum of Wages, with a Guarantee of Employment.

§ 2. —Would Require as a Condition Legal Measures for Repression of Population.

§ 3. Allowances in Aid of Wages and the Standard of Living.

§ 4. Grounds for Expecting Improvement in Public Opinion on the Subject of Population.

§ 5. Twofold means of Elevating the Habits of the Laboring-People; by Education, and by Foreign and Home Colonization.

Chapter IV. Of The Differences Of Wages In Different Employments.

§ 1. Differences of Wages Arising from Different Degrees of Attractiveness in Different Employments.

§ 2. Differences arising from Natural Monopolies.

§ 3. Effect on Wages of the Competition of Persons having other Means of Support.

§ 4. Wages of Women, why Lower than those of Men.

§ 5. Differences of Wages Arising from Laws, Combinations, or Customs.

Chapter V. Of Profits.

§ 1. Profits include Interest and Risk; but, correctly speaking, do not include Wages of Superintendence.

§ 2. The Minimum of Profits; what produces Variations in the Amount of Profits.

§ 3. General Tendency of Profits to an Equality.

§ 4. The Cause of the Existence of any Profit; the Advances of Capitalists consist of Wages of Labor.

§ 5. The Rate of Profit depends on the Cost of Labor.

Chapter VI. Of Rent.

§ 1. Rent the Effect of a Natural Monopoly.

§ 2. No Land can pay Rent except Land of such Quality or Situation as exists in less Quantity than the Demand.

§ 3. The Rent of Land is the Excess of its Return above the Return to the worst Land in Cultivation.