Mises Daily
Author:
George Reisman
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[This article is Professor Reisman’s introduction to an excerpt from James Mill’s pamphlet Commerce Defended , available in the Study Guide .] James Mill (1773–1836) is perhaps best known as the father and educator of John Stuart Mill. He deserves to be remembered for much more, however. Not only was he an influential popularizer of the ideas of