Cover of Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy

Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill

First published
1874
Reading level
Fairly demanding
Price
Free

About the book

"Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy" by John Stuart Mill is a treatise on political economics published in 1844. Mill tackles fundamental questions about the nature and scope of economic science, proposing that it should be an abstract, deductive discipline grounded in laws of human nature. The work introduces what would later be called Walras' law and redefines political economy as an autonomous field with its own distinct subject matter: the laws governing production and distribution of wealth.

  • Economics

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #12004. Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy on Wikipedia.

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