Hayek on Mill : the Mill-Taylor friendship and related writings

424 Pages·2015·2.004 MB·English

by  Hayek, Friedrich August, Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor, Mill, John Stuart, Peart, Sandra J

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
F. A. Hayek
VOLUME XVI
HAYEK ON MILL
The Mill- Taylor Friendship and Related Writings
PLAN OF THE COLLECTED WORKS
Edited by Bruce Caldwell
Volume I The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988)
Volume II The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents— The Definitive
Edition (2007)
Volume III The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political
Economists and Economic History (1991)
Volume IV The Fortunes of Liberalism: Essays on Austrian Economics
and the Ideal of Freedom (1992)
Volume V Good Money, Part I: The New World (1999)
Volume VI Good Money, Part II: The Standard (1999)
Volume VII Business Cycles, Part I (2012)
Volume VIII Business Cycles, Part II (2012)
Volume IX Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence
(1995)
Volume X Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews (1997)
Volume XI Capital and Interest
Volume XII The Pure Theory of Capital (2007)
Volume XIII Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason: Text and
Documents (2010)
Volume XIV The Sensory Order and Other Essays
Volume XV The Market and Other Orders (2014)
Volume XVI Hayek on Mill: The Mill- Taylor Friendship and Related
Writings (2015)
Volume XVII The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition (2011)
Volume XVIII Essays on Liberty and Economics
Volume XIX Law, Legislation and Liberty
Supplement Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue (1994)
The plan is provisional. Minor alterations may occur in titles of individual books,
and additional volumes may be added.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
F. A. Hayek
VOLUME XVI
HAYEK ON MILL
The Mill-T aylor Friendship
and Related Writings
EDITED BY
SANDRA J. PEART
The University of Chicago Press
f. a. hayek (1899–1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in 1991 and cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading
proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. sandra j.
peart is dean and professor of leadership studies at the University of
Richmond, where she also codirects the Summer Institute for the History
of Economic Thought.
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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226106427.001.0001
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Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899–1992, author.
Hayek on Mill : the Mill- Taylor friendship and related writings / edited
by Sandra J. Peart.
pages cm. — (Collected works of F. A. Hayek ; volume XVI)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 226- 10639- 7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978- 0- 226-
10642- 7 (e- book) 1. Mill, John Stuart, 1806–1873. 2. Philosophers—
Great Britain. 3. Mill, John Stuart, 1806–1873—Marriage. 4. Mill,
John Stuart, 1806–1873—Correspondence. 5. Mill, Harriet Hardy
Taylor, 1807–1858. 6. Philosophers’ spouses—Great Britain. 7. Mill,
Harriet Hardy Taylor, 1807–1858—Correspondence. I. Peart, Sandra J.,
editor. II. Title. III. Series: Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August),
1899–1992. Works. 1989 ; v. 16.
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF F. A. HAYEK
Founding Editor: W. W. Bartley III
General Editor: Bruce Caldwell
Published with the support of
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford University
The Cato Institute
The Earhart Foundation
The Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation
The Heritage Foundation
The Morris Foundation, Little Rock

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Editorial Foreword xiii
Editor’s Acknowledgements xvii
Editor’s Introduction xix
HAYEK ON MILL: THE MILL- TAYLOR FRIENDSHIP AND
RELATED WRITINGS
PART I. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and
Subsequent Marriage
Acknowledgements 5
Abbreviations and Symbols Used 7
Introduction 9
One Harriet Taylor and Her Circle (1830) 19
Two Acquaintance and Early Crises (1830– 1833) 36
Three On Marriage and Divorce (about 1832) 57
Four Friends and Gossip (1834– 1842) 73
Five The Years of Friendship (1834– 1847) 86
contents
Six A Joint Production (1847– 1849) 114
Seven John Taylor’s Illness and Death (1849) 151
Eight Marriage and Break with Mill’s Family (1851) 162
Nine Illness (1851– 1854) 177
Ten Italy and Sicily (1854– 1855) 207
Eleven Greece (1855) 225
Twelve Last Years and Death of Mrs. Mill (1856– 1858) 242
Appendix I Poems by Harriet Taylor 261
Appendix II An Early Essay by Harriet Taylor 264
Appendix III Family Trees 270
PART II. Related Writings
Thirteen John Stuart Mill at the Age of Twenty- Five 273
Fourteen J. S. Mill’s Correspondence 289
Fifteen The Dispersal of the Books and Papers of
John Stuart Mill 293
Sixteen J. S. Mill, Mrs. Taylor, and Socialism 298
Seventeen Portraits of J. S. Mill 313
Eighteen Preface to The Life of John Stuart Mill 314
Nineteen Review of Mill and His Early Critics 316
Twenty Review of John Mill’s Boyhood Visit to France 318
Twenty- One Introduction to Considerations on Representative Government 319
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contents
Twenty- Two Introduction to The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill,
1812– 1848 322
Twenty- Three Related Correspondence 332
Index of Names 355
Index of Subjects 361
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