The international community of historians of economic thought is not essentially divided between 'absolutists' and 'relativists', or between 'continuists' and 'discontinuists Rather it is the specific content of the metier d'historien which makes the difference. This paper aims at highlighting...

This paper examines the texts Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1788 and 1789 for the upcoming meeting of the Estates-General in France, focusing on the arrangement of a representative assembly. Bentham examined the problems of constitutional choice with an economic method, answering the fundamental...