diff --git a/scrapy/commands/settings.py b/scrapy/commands/settings.py
index 0e73f4f58..bce4e6086 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/settings.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
+import json
+
 from scrapy.commands import ScrapyCommand
+from scrapy.settings import BaseSettings
 
 class Command(ScrapyCommand):
 
@@ -28,7 +31,11 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
     def run(self, args, opts):
         settings = self.crawler_process.settings
         if opts.get:
-            print(settings.get(opts.get))
+            s = settings.get(opts.get)
+            if isinstance(s, BaseSettings):
+                print(json.dumps(s.copy_to_dict()))
+            else:
+                print(s)
         elif opts.getbool:
             print(settings.getbool(opts.getbool))
         elif opts.getint:
diff --git a/tests/test_cmdline/__init__.py b/tests/test_cmdline/__init__.py
index c2de4fbc8..7733e7180 100644
--- a/tests/test_cmdline/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/test_cmdline/__init__.py
@@ -68,4 +68,4 @@ class CmdlineTest(unittest.TestCase):
             settingsstr = settingsstr.replace(char, '"')
         settingsdict = json.loads(settingsstr)
         six.assertCountEqual(self, settingsdict.keys(), EXTENSIONS.keys())
-        self.assertIn('value=200', settingsdict[EXT_PATH])
+        self.assertEquals(200, settingsdict[EXT_PATH])