Guidi, Marco; Sigot, Nathalie - In: Revue économique 65 (2014) 2, pp. 225-242
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...
