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The biography explains that in 1776 Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations after decades of studying political economy, and it summarizes the book’s aim to justify free pursuit of interest under justice.
visited London and Edinburgh. Mr. Hume, who considered a town as the proper scene for a man of letters, made many attempts to prevail on him to leave his retirement. At length, in the beginning of the year 1776, Mr. Smith accounted to the world for his long retreat, by the publication of his 'Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.' This work chiefly comprehended the subject of the fourth and la…
In 1819 Mill undergoes a complete course of political economy taught through daily lectures and written accounts, contrasting Ricardo’s depth with Smith’s errors, including work on bullion controversy pamphlets.
life, unhappily cut short in the full vigour of his intellect, he rendered so much service to his and my father's opinions both on political economy and on other subjects. Though Ricardo's great work was already in print, no didactic treatise embodying its doctrines, in a manner fit for learners, had yet appeared. My father, therefore, commenced instructing me in the science by a sort of lectures, which he delivered…
Mill states the young “Philosophic Radicalism” circle was less a strict Benthamite cult than a blend of Bentham, modern political economy, and Hartleian metaphysics, using Malthus’s population principle as a shared banner.
was also the general opinion of the younger proselytes; and it is pleasant to be able to say that Mr. Bentham, on this important point, was wholly on our side. But though none of us, probably, agreed in every respect with my father, his opinions, as I said before, were the principal element which gave its colour and character to the little group of young men who were the first propagators of what was afterwards call…
The table of contents lists the book’s chapter structure, including sections on apriorism, natural philosophy (time/space, physics, chemistry, the organic world), and later discussions of morality, law, dialectics, political economy, socialism, and an appendix.
Apriorism 54 The Scheme of the Universe 63 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 70 Time and Space 70 Cosmogony, Physics, and Chemistry 82 The Organic World 94 The Organic World (conc…