Les libertariens de gauche défendent à la fois la pleine propriété de soi et l'égale propriété des ressources naturelles. Pour cette raison, ils présentent Léon Walras, qui prônait la pleine propriété de nos facultés personnelles et la propriété commune des terres (1896), comme un...

Samuel Hollander recently found a manuscript, in Mill's hand, on the effects on profits of cultivating successive qualities of land. In this journal, he discussed the authorship of the document, suggesting either Bentham or Mill. The first hypothesis means that it was written long before 1815,...

This paper aims at exploring, in a formal way, Bentham's statement that 'the pleasure of gaining is not equal to the evil of losing', which belongs to those aspects of the principle of utility left aside by Jevons' reconstruction. Consequently, the agent's preference order will be viewed as...

This article aims at showing how Bentham addressed the modern issue of the economic efficiency of the law (as defined by Posner) ; to do that, we focus on Defence of Usury [1787] and the manuscript Sur les prix [1801a] : in 1787, Bentham stated that, in order to increase wealth, the rate of...

The paper aims at studying why and how, in a very short time – from Circulating Annuities (1800) to Paper Mischief (1800-1801) and The True Alarm ([Sur les prix], 1801) – Jeremy Bentham radically changed his way of formulating the problem of money and his conception of what should be done to...

<title>Abstract</title> After David Ricardo had argued against it, Jeremy Bentham's manuscript <italic>Sur les prix</italic> was never published. Our paper deals with the reasons of that disagreement. After having told the story of the manuscript, we compare its content and the critiques on both the positive analysis of the...

[eng] La théorie monétaire de Bentham, telle qu'elle apparaît dans le manuscrit Sur les prix (1801) met l'accent sur la notion de confiance, élément clef dans la détermination de la valeur du papier-monnaie. Il en résulte une analyse qui s'intéresse de manière prioritaire à la...

French liberal economists share a very surprising reading of Bentham's theory. In this paper, we underline the method according to which these French liberal economists in the nineteenth century economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism: they consider that utilitarianism deals with...