In contrast to his contemporary John Stuart Mill, who dealt with economic issues in a voluminous book and numerous essays, Tocqueville engaged relatively little with such issues. If one takes a look at the table of contents of the two volumes of the Démocratie, the chapters in which economic issues are explicitly at the centre can be counted on one hand (OC I, 2, II, 18–19 and 20 – where it is mainly about professions and industry – and OC I, 2, III, 6 and 7). However, this does not mean that he was not, or only marginally, interested in such issues, and his interest was not just motivated by the fact that he had bought shares in America. One of his English correspondents and discussion partners was, by the way, the great economist Nassau William Senior. In addition, as a deputy, Tocqueville was forced by daily events to take a position on economic issues.