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Mill, John Stuart

(1806–73) an English economist who helped develop CLASSICAL ECONOMIC theory in his book Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (1848). Mill was a social reformer, and although he preferred to see the production and exchange of goods taking place in free markets, he argued that government intervention could improve the material wellbeing of the people through REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOME. Mill was the first to argue that educational barriers to labour mobility could create non-competing groups of labour with permanent differences in wage rates between groups. He was also the first to analyse costs where two or more joint products are produced in fixed proportions.

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Similarly, Hayek's Millian case for economic freedom in The Constitution of Liberty rests substantially on the idea that the trial and error process of economic competition discloses information that central planners falsely presume they already have.

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Starting from the suspicion that the notion of harm defended by Millian liberals is too narrow but that an "offence principle" is too broad, I will side with theorists such as Jeremy Waldron and Rae Langton who argue that an adequate version of the harm principle ought to include anti-hate speech laws.

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He truly believes in his own Millian "sovereignty" of spirit.

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"They were happy to invest with him, and they were happy to work with Donald Trump," said Millian, who told the broadcaster he once helped sell Trump-built condominiums in Russia and former Soviet states.

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concentrating on utilitarianism in Millian terms, it is one thing to

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Friedman's brand of 'as if' theorising for this purpose is located in a much older and dominant Millian tradition where such assumptions are general rather than literal characterizations of behavior.

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The Brahmo Samaj, founded in 1828, embraced a version of Millian liberalism while seeking to reform Hinduism for modern times.

Modi's India: caste, inequality, and the rise of Hindu nationalism: caste and social inequality persist in modern India, but the poor are now political in a way unheard of in the first several decades after independence

This Millian approach to doctrinal diversity resonates with Stilwell's 'Open Society' argument for pluralism in economics.

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