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On Liberty is a compilation of Mill’s thoughts and ideas on liberty and individual freedom. Mill believed that individuality was a basic element of the well-being of man, and this is what he tries to convey in this book.A leading proponent of Utilitarianism, Mill was the voice of nineteenth century liberalism. He disapproved of capitalism and democracy, and believed that all human beings have equal rights.
Mill's Principles of Political Economy, is one of the most widely read of all books on economics in that period. Mill intended the work as both a survey of contemporary economic thought and as an exploration of applications of economic ideas to social concerns. It was not a book merely of abstract science, but also of application, and treated political economy not as a thing by itself, but as a fragment of a greater whole. These two interests nicely divide the ...