{"product_id":"collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-eight-volume-set-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill","title":"Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Eight-Volume Set) (Collected Works of John Stuart Mill)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReprint of vols. 1-5, 7-8, and 10 of the original 33-vol. set.;Includes bibliographical references and index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiberty Fund is pleased to make available in paperback eight of the original thirty-three cloth volumes of the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Works of John Stuart Mill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMill's \u003cem\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrinciples of Political Economy\u003c\/em\u003e is a compendium of economic theory ranging from Adam Smith through the then-modern theories of David Ricardo and Bentham. \u003cem\u003ePrinciples\u003c\/em\u003e was the leading economics textbook for nearly half a century and influenced generations of social and economic thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrimarily of interest to economists is Mill's \u003cem\u003eEssays on Economics and Society\u003c\/em\u003e, in which he writes on the most compelling economic problems and social concerns brought about by the rapidly industrialized nineteenth-century Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most indispensable work for understanding Mill's thought is \u003cem\u003eA System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive\u003c\/em\u003e, which was the first serious attempt to methodize induction in relation to deduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssays on Ethics, Religion and Society\u003c\/em\u003e includes Mill's response to Benthamite utilitarianism and his development of his own independent moral position.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Stuart Mill\u003c\/strong\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e (1859), \u003cem\u003eUtilitarianism\u003c\/em\u003e (1861), and \u003cem\u003eThe Subjection of Women\u003c\/em\u003e (1869).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Liberty Fund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449024299139,"sku":"9780865976580","price":139.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9780865976580.jpg?v=1783320054","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-eight-volume-set-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}