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Reply to Hollander and Peart's “John Stuart Mill's Method”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Abraham Hirsch
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I do not think that it would serve much of a purpose to answer Hollander and Peart (1999) point by point, to repeat old arguments, and to once again cite long quotations from Mill. Furthermore, I doubt that the Editor of this Journal would give me the space and time to do so. Instead I propose to ask a number of basic questions about Mill's methodology, give my answers to them and show why I find fault with what I take to be Hollander and Peart's answers. I doubt that this will convince my adversaries. But I hope to show our readers what the major issues are in the disagreement and, perhaps, even to get Hollander and Peart to agree that these are the issues that separate us. If I fail in this latter task they will have the opportunity to point this out in their Rejoinder.

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Research Article
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 349 - 360
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2000

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