James Mill

James Mill

Biography • • • • • • • • • • • James Mill was born on April 6 , 1773 in Montrose Scotland and died 1836. His father, James Milne, was a small farmer of modest means who was quiet, mild-mannered. He enrolled in 1790 at the Academy of Montrose and later, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he graduated with a Masters of Arts. He studied Divinity and was ordained and got his license to preach in 1798. In 1802, he moved to London and began writing articles for the Edinburgh Review and the St. James Chronicle. From 1802 to 1819 Mill was a professional writer In 1805 J. Mill married Harriet Burrow In 1806 James Mill started his writing on the History of British India Jeremy Bentham was friend of him from London and he supported his idia about utilitarianism. Mill became a prominent member of the Philosophical Radicals, a group which included Bentham, David Ricardo, George Grote and John Austin James Mill was faithful to Ricardo rather than Bentham in his economics, James Mill, John Stuart’s father, referred to himself and to McCulloch as Ricardo’s “two and only two genuine disciples. (Spiegel P. 343)

Works In 1804, He published An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain. This essay discussed Mill’s belief that import taxes and export bounties should be stopped. • • • • • In 1804, he published "Lord Lauderdale on Public Wealth," 1808 Commerce Defended. In 1817 History of British India, 6 vols. This work helped Mill become employed by the East India Company. Mill suggested reforms including nationalization of Indian land and the removal of taxes In 1821 he published his first economic book Elements of Political Economy

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He was employed by the East India Company in 1819

Mill was a strong supporter of Ricardo’s economic ideas and he was first of all concerned with the dissemination of Ricardo’s ideas.” This was the reason of writing the book of Elements of Political Economy (Spiegel 344). Mill believed that...