John Stuart Mill and the art of consumptionFootnote

1 This paper was presented in earlier forms at the 2022 STOREP Annual Conference in Viterbo, at the 2022 ESHET Summer School in Strasbourg, at the 2021 ESHET Summer School in Paris and in seminars at Goldsmiths University of London and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Thanks to all the participants of these sessions for their helpful remarks. I would like to thank especially Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, William Davies, Cinla Akdere, Victor Bianchini, Nathalie Sigot, Michel Zouboulakis, Nicholas Taylor, Constantinos Repapis, this journal’s editors and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful guidance and suggestions.

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