...off? Although his articulation of this sometimes makes him sound like an old fogey ('I confess I'm not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those...elbowing and treading on each other's heels, which forms the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of humankind'), his understanding...

...the strong "promptings" of his wife and stepdaughter.11 "I am not charmed," Mill declared, "with an ideal of life held out by those who think that the...of human beings is that of struggling to get on." All who participate in the chain of events of labor — all workers whose "productive power" leads...

...Economics, "The increase of wealth is not boundless."3 This is not all bad in Mill's view, because "the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...heels, which form the existing type of social life" is hardly the most desirable lot of mankind. Mill, who daringly flirted with socialist ideas, prefers...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...considerable improvement on our present condition. John Stuart Mill (1857) What is a steady-state economy? Economic analysis, or any analytic thought...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human...

...growth was not one of its strengths either. Mill wrote disdainfully: "I am not charmed with the idea of life held out by those who think that the normal...of human beings is that of struggling to get on." He argued that the government should limit the pace of technical change, and was in favor of cooperatives...

...III: 768). This claim, of course, has hardly been tested, and its testing ground is a far cry from "the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing [capitalist] type of social life" (POPE, CW II: 754). That said, Mill's hope rests on an assumption...

...Mill was predicting "that at the end of ... the progressive state lies the stationary state", which would be, "on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition". He continued that, if not curbed, industrial expansion would mean that the Earth would be exhausted...