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Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

6 chapters, about 47,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 200 words
2. ESSAY I. 13,600 words
3. OF THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMPTION ON PRODUCTION. 8,300 words
4. ON THE WORDS PRODUCTIVE AND UNPRODUCTIVE. 3,900 words
5. ON PROFITS, AND INTEREST. 8,400 words
6. ESSAY V. 13,100 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Capitalism
• First principle
• Means of production
• Political economy
• Price
• Profit (economics)
• Social science
• Tax
• Wealth

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