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Mill, John Stuart (oh)



(1806-73) a British philosopher and economist who influenced modern ideas about politics and economics. He helped to develop the idea of utilitarianism (=the principle that actions are good if they generally bring happiness, and bad if they do not) , and in his book On Liberty, he said that people should be free to do what they want so long as they did not harm other people.