John Stuart Mill

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-159
Author(s):  
Manolis Manioudis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Economic History ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical School ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Factual Data

This article attempts to illustrate the interrelations between theory and history in John Stuart Mill’s political economy. Mill follows a stages theory from the tradition of the Scottish historical school and viewed history as an essential part in understanding economic phenomena. The article stresses the affinities between Mill and the Scottish historical school while at the same time showing how Mill moves between theory and history to verify his views or to show the limit of his economic analysis. This movement, viewed as a part of his attempt to sketch out a middle way between Ricardianism and inductivism, provided Mill the opportunity to make an extensive use of factual data before the professionalization of economic history proper in the late nineteenth century.

J. S. Mill and the Irish land question: From Irish economic history to coherent socialism and Irish historicism

2020 ◽  
pp. 033248932093305
Author(s):  
Manolis Manioudis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Economic History ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical School ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Classical Economic ◽  
Land Question

John Stuart Mill is regarded as the last representative of the classical school of political economy. However, in a variety of issues, he developed interesting and radical economic views. The Irish land question is one of the most characteristic cases of his transition from classical economic analysis to a liberal version of socialism. This article attempts to illustrate this transition by highlighting Mill’s pluralistic and historically specific political economy. This is achieved through the delineation of his views on the Irish land question indexing his Principles of Political Economy (1848), England and Ireland (1868) and his pamphlet Land Tenure Reform (1871). The article concludes that Mill’s heretic views regarding the Irish land question are associated with his transition towards socialist views and facilitated the emergence of the Irish historical school of the late nineteenth century.

The Shift toward Secular Ideology

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-298
Author(s):  
Jon D. Wisman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The State ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Following the rise of the state, religion served to legitimate societies’ institutions, practices, and unequal distributions of income, wealth, and privilege. However, emerging capitalism and its expanding bourgeoisie in Western Europe challenged the Catholic Church’s monopoly on truth and meaning, opening space for secular legitimation. The science of political economy increasingly evolved as a principal body of social thought legitimating inequality. This transfer from religion to political economy begins with the mercantilists and is mostly complete by the end of the nineteenth century. Political economy’s principal inequality-legitimating doctrines include the utility of poverty, the justice of the invisible hand, the Malthusian population doctrine, the wages-fund doctrine, and the trickle-down thesis. Most of these doctrines take on more of a patina of “natural” science in the late nineteenth century when the neoclassical revolution in economics attempted to sever economic science from morality and politics and express itself technically with calculus.

Political Economy in the Gilded Age: The Republican Party's Industrial Policy

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
American History ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The nature of party contention and public discourse in the late nineteenth century is one of the least understood and most elusive subjects in American history and historiography. In the period itself many critics condemned the intense partisanship of the two major parties as a sham battle, aimed more at filling offices than fulfilling ideals, and all too often tainted with corrupt motives and methods. In the classic formulation of Englishman James Bryce, “neither party has any principles…. [P]oints of political doctrine … have all but vanished …. All has been lost except office or the hope of it.”

‘Fishers of Men’: religion and political economy among colonized Tabwa

Africa ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen F. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Lake Tanganyika ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphIn the late nineteenth century, Catholic missionaries among Tabwa southwest of Lake Tanganyika (now Zaire) sought to create a cohesive community of African Christians. The priests prohibited communal practice of Tabwa religion in the vicinity of their churches (established at points of densest population) and appropriated important means of food production like river-fishing grounds, for their own exploitation or to reward those loyal to them. As they enhanced their own economic and political influence, they contributed to Tabwa anomie, rather than community.

Warrior Caste ‘Raja’ and Gentleman ‘Zamindar’: One Person's Experience in the Late Nineteenth Century

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela G. Price
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Major Part ◽  
English Language ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The aim of this paper is to interpret the life experience of a south Indian landholder at the end of the nineteenth century. The basis for interpretation comes from the author's analysis of the values of political economy among, chiefly, warrior castes as they adjusted to constraints of imperial rule from 1800 in Madras Presidency. The method of exposition is, for the most part, descriptive and narrative, with the intention of highlighting and contextualizing major concepts governing the man's thoughts and actions. Because the subject, a wealthy Tamil zamindar, kept English-language diaries, problems of cultural anachronism in the prose below are mitigated. Having the English vocabulary—or a small part of it—of our subject subverts the bugbear of ethnosociology, the cultural distortions inherent in using an alien language as one discusses the values of a social group. Contemporary newspaper commentary in English also lends cultural accuracy to the narrative. Memories of the subject linger still in Madurai Town, scene of many of his activities. I wrote the major part of the piece in Madurai and was honoured with a request to read it to the membership of the local Historical Society. That membership gave me paradoxical relief in saying of this cultural account, ‘She has told us nothing new about Baskara Setupati.’

scholarly journals What is the value of a technological history of cinema?

2013 ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Lee Grieveson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Secondary Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Cinema was a product of the second-stage Industrial Revolution. This article examines some aspects of the technological and economic history of cinema and that revolution. It draws on secondary material on the electrical and chemical developments beginning in the late nineteenth century, and on primary research on particular case studies where cinema technology was used to further the economic objectives of industrial and financial organisations.

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