Mills' fantastically thorough analysis of economics is remarkable both for its breadth as well as it's continued relevancy.

Some of it has lost any bearing in the modern world (whole chapters devoted to cottier farming!) and some of it remains politically controversial (progressive taxation). JSM's

前面比较有用啊，跟不上作者的论述
后面跳了些

Ngl chief, this book a boner killer. I get it was written so long ago, but this was drier than the Sahara. I will say however, to JSM’s credit (just realized that John Stuart Mill and Sarah J Maas have the same 3 initials), that PPE contains some of the most progressive ideology concerning the worki

Sometimes its easier to read economic philosophy from the 18th and 19th centuries because of the way it begins simply and then builds upon itself until a complex, but understandable, framework lays before you. JSM does just that and in a far better way than any of his contemporaries or predecessors

What is most interesting to me after reading this book is that, despite the concepts to be somewhat relevant in the modern era, the models and examples given are rather obsolete. Goes to show how much our world has changed in the past 100 years or so.