Compare and contrast Parliament’s and John Stuart Mill’s responses to the Irish Potato Famine.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The members of Parliament were influenced by liberalism.
b. They promoted laissez-faire policies that held that a free market would resolve the issue more effectively and efficiently than government intervention.
c. They assumed that the desire for profits would drive merchants to sell food to the starving Irish at reasonable prices.
d. Although Mill was also influenced by liberalism, he believed that government intervention was sometimes necessary in order to promote the common good.
e. Mill’s utilitarian outlook—expressed in the phrase “the greatest good for the greatest number”—placed the common good above free-market principles.
f. Mill argued that when all else failed, the government needed to step in and implement policies to promote the common good.
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