Reviews for Principles of political economy

The average rating for Principles of political economy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-27 00:00:00 Louise Burley Pragmatic or muddled? Mill sets out to explore economic principles but, ultimately, finds that there is no principle which doesn't have any amount of conceivable exceptions. You have to wonder why its worth bothering with principle? Mill's discussion of communism is interesting in that he anticipates many of the criticisms made of it subsequently. Sadly, Mill finds them mostly misguided and speaks favourably of communism. With the benefit of hind sight we can now see that those Mill was critiquing were far closer to the truth.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-27 00:00:00 William Powell A very nice view of the basics of economics. A lot still can be applied to-day, which is actually what the follow-up economist did. So, in some sense, it is the basement for what is economy for a modern world. The downside is that the hard part of the book isn't the material, but rather very obfuscated 19c English with a lot of sub-sentences, introductions, metaphors. Which is fun to meet in literature, but for non-fiction, I prefer more stylistic easiness.