...ESSAYS ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY by JOHN STUART MILL 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A PENN ST... ......................................................................4 ESSAY I: Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations; and the Distribu- tion of th... ...tribu- tion of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World ........................................................................ ... nation from which the commodities are imported. ESSA ESSA ESSA ESSA ESSAY I Y I Y I Y I Y I O O O O Of the Laws of I f the Laws of I f the Laws of I ... ...ding to distribute them- selves in such a manner throughout the commercial world, that every country shall import all that it would have imported, and... ...h any commodity whatever. Sup- pose that a country should be opened to our merchants, dis- posed to buy from us in abundance, but which can sell to us... ...John Stuart Mill for all Europe: Holland, at a much later period, supplied ships, and almost all articles which came in ships, to most other parts of ... ... of the great returns alleged to have been made to capital during the last war, must have arisen from a similar cause. Our exclusive command of the se... ...of the circumstances which affect the disposition to borrow and to lend, a war breaks out, which induces government, for a series of years, to bor- ro...

Excerpt: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill.

...Contents PREFACE........................................................................................................4 ESSAY I: Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations; and the Distribution of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World ...........................................................................................

...mposed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved ... .... It is not, however, my design to dwell upon observations of this nature. I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately t... ...magogues, and ending tyrants. In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon your guard again... ...its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, run- ning at convenient distances, present them with highways for th... ...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ...l rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have... ...ded to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and address of our merchants and naviga- tors, will give us a greater share in the advantages ... ...d navigation of such a nation, be- tween a direct communication in its own ships, and an indi- rect conveyance of its products and returns, to and fro... ...nequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and naviga- tors, and which is in itself an inexhaustible mine of...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subjec...