Throughout his life, John Stuart Mill warned contemporaries about stagnation or immobility, a most dangerous phenomenon, perhaps the chief evil then begining to afflict modern societies. Despite its close links with many other key ideas in Mill, the perils of stagnation have not yet been subject...

J. S. Mill's statement that "an engagement by which a person should sell himself, or allow himself to be sold, as a slave would be null and void; neither enforced by law nor by opinion" has sparked a lively debate on his supposed paternalism and on its consistency with his views on individual...

This paper examines the economic rationale of the ideas of Gladstone & Chadwick on railway regulation and the legacy of their ideas. In 1844 Gladstone proposed and implemented what we would now call price and quantity regulation whereas in 1859 Chadwick proposed competition "for the field", i.e....

The present paper establishes a general picture of Say's economic thought. The first part provides a general view of Say's writings stressing his economic publications other than the Traite, and the non-economic publications covering two other realms of what was labelled the Sciences morales et...

Recent events in the Gulf of Mexico have revealed that major oil companies were not prepared for what happened. Their preparations suggest a "do first, worry about it afterwards" attitude. Schemas are cognitive structures which have strong, often unconscious, effects on thought, behaviour and...