Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy is a treatise on political economics by John Stuart Mill. Walras' law, a principle in general equilibrium theory named in honour of Léon Walras, was first expressed by Mill in this treatise. Karl Marx remarked of the work, “The few original ideas of Mill Junior are contained in this narrow little volume, not in his fat, pedantic magnum opus.” The significance of this contribution of Mill has been analyzed by Manicas in his History & Philosophy of the Social Sciences as follows: