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James Mill, Indian civil servant, Benthamite, and father and mentor of John Stuart Mill, introduced Jean-Baptiste Say’s law of markets into British economic discourse. In addition to important works on the history of India, political and legal reform, and associationist psychology, he was the author of a textbook of Ricardian economics and played a major part in convincing Ricardo that he should write his Principles of Political Economy (1817). Through his son he was also responsible for giving prominence to proposals for taxing the ‘unearned increment’ in rental incomes that were influential in forming radical and socialist thinking in Britain.
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Winch, D. (2018). Mill, James (1773–1836). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1205
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