John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

The particulars of Mill's life are too well known - as laid out in his famous Autobiography (1873) for instance - to be worth repeating here, so we will just rattle them out: son of the Ricardian economist James Mill, trained from an early age to be a genius, "lent" by his father to utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, became a utilitarian himself, followed his father into the British East India Company, broke with Bentham, had an existentialist crisis, turned to the doctrines of Saint-Simon and Comte, met Harriet Taylor and waited twenty years for her husband to die, became a Whig politician, etc., etc.

J.S. Mill was an economist, a Classical economist whose magnificent 1848 restatement of Ricardo's theory was thought to be so conclusive that, in the beginning of a discussion on price theory, he confidently notes that:

"Happily, there is nothing in the laws of Value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up; the theory of the subject is complete: the only difficulty to be overcome is that of so stating it as to solve by anticipation the chief perplexities which occur in applying it."

(J.S. Mill, Principles, 1848: Book III, Ch. 1).

Major Works of John Stuart Mill

• "Two Letters on the Measure of Value", 1822, The Traveller
• "Questions of Population", 1823,  Black Dwarf
• "War Expenditure", 1824, Westminster Rev
• "Quarterly Review -- Political Economy", 1825, Westminster Rev
• "Review of Miss Martineau's Tales", 1830, Examiner
• "The Spirit of the Age", 1831, Examiner
• "Essay on Bentham" 1838
• A System of Logic, 1843. - (Book VI)
• Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, 1844 
• "Claims of Labour", 1845, Edinburgh Rev
• The Principles of Political Economy: with some of their applications to social philosophy, 1848
• "The Negro Question", 1850, Fraser's Magazine
• Dissertations and Discussions, 1859.
• On Liberty , 1859 (Copies (1), (2) ,  (3) , (4) )
• Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, 1859.
• Considerations on Representative Government, 1860 (copy)
• "Centralisation", 1862, Edinburgh Rev
• "The Contest in America", 1862, Fraser's Magazine (repr. Harper's; also pamphlet)
• Utilitarianism 1863
• An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, Vol. I, Vol. II, 1865.
• Auguste Comte and Positivism, 1865.
• Inaugural Address at St. Andrews, 1867.
• "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment", 1868
• England and Ireland, 1868.
• "Thornton on Labor and its Claims", 1869, Fortnightly Review
• The Subjection of Women, 1869 (copy 1, copy 2)
• Chapters and Speeches on the Irish Land Question, 1870
• On Nature, 1874
• Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, 1873
• Three Essays on Religion, 1874.
• "Notes on N.W. Senior's Political Economy", 1945, Economica

Resources on John Stuart Mill

• HET Pages: General Glut Controversy, the Classical Ricardian System, the Carlyle-Mill "Negro Question" Debate
• A Portrait of Harriet Taylor with J.S. Mill, and Harriet Taylor by herself.
• "Mill's Logic", 1843, Blackwood's Edinburgh Review
• "Review of J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy", by Walter Bagehot, 1848, Prospective Review
• "Political Economy by John Stuart Mill", 1848, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
• "Mill's Political Economy: Population and Property", 1848, North American Review
• "Review of Mill's Principles and McCulloch's Succession to Property", 1848, NAR
• "J.S. Mill on Political Economy", by G. Fitzhugh, 1867, DeBow's Review
• "J.S. Mill" by G.M. Towle, 1870, Appletons' Journal 
• "Review of J.S. Mill's Autobiography" by President Chapin, 1874, New Englander and Yale Review
• "John Stuart Mill and the Destruction of Theism", by President Shairp, 1878, Princeton Review
• The English Utilitarians: III, J.S. Mill by Leslie Stephen
• "J.S. Mill: the Utilitarian influence in the demise of laissez-faire" by Ellen Frankel Paul, 1978, J of Libertarian Studies
• "Connoisseurs of Diversity: John Stuart Mill on Breeding the Culture of Toleration" by Graham Finlay
• "Utility and Preferences", by Soshichi Uchii, 1998
• "Sherlock Holmes and Probabilistic Induction" by Soshichi Uchii, 1998
• "Variations in the Editions of J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy" by M.A. Ellis 
• Philosopher: John Stuart Mill at Bartleby 
• Macquarie Univ. Essays
  • On Mill's Logic - (1) , (2) ;
  • On Mill's Sociology - (1).
  • On Mill's Utilitarianism - (1)
  • On the relation between Mill and Macaulay - (1)
• J.S. Mill Page at Britannica.com
• J.S. Mill Page at Bjorn's Guide to Philosophy
•  J.S. Mill at International Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• J.S. Mill Page at Spartacus Educational Web
• J.S. Mill at Utilitarianism.com
• J.S. Mill Notice at JHU
• J.S. Mill Page at McMaster
• J.S. Mill Page at Akamac
• Mill Page at Haakan Sorensen
• Mill Page at Laura Forgette
• Mill Page at Toronto
• Mill Page at Hanover
• Small J.S. Mill Page at Queen's Univ.
• Bibliography of John Stuart Mill
• British think-tank, the John Stuart Mill Institute