John Stuart Mill
1806 – 1873 · United Kingdom · Political Economy, Philosophy, Politics
Principles of Political Economy and On Liberty joined markets to individual freedom.
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Inherited from2
- Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797 · Politics, Philosophy
The Subjection of Women continues Wollstonecraft's Vindication in Victorian argument.
- Thomas Robert Malthus
1766 – 1834 · Political Economy
Mill's Principles argues with Malthus over population, wages and the stationary state.
Passed the work to1
- Amartya Sen
1933 · Economics, Philosophy
Sen's capability approach reworks Mill's liberty into what people are actually able to do.
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