What is the biography of John Muller, author of Principles of Political Economy?

John Muller (1806~1873) was a famous British philosopher, economist, and logician in the 19th century. Born in London, he was sent to France at the age of 14 to study chemistry, botany and higher mathematics, and was proficient in French; he returned to his country in 1821 to study psychology and Roman law. He then worked for the East India Company and engaged in academic activities, publishing monographs on logic and political economy.

Elected to the House of Commons in the Westminster district, 1865-1868, and in 1868 was one of the founders of the world's first women's suffrage society; died at Avignon in 1873.

In order to summarize the economic theories that had driven the political situation in the first half of the nineteenth century, and to justify socio-economic phenomena in terms of the best social ideas of the time, Müller decided to write a "modern Wealth of Nations" adapted to the wider range of knowledge and advanced thought of the time, with some additions and derivations from Ricardo's doctrines. The work was the Principles of Political Economy - and Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy.