Baujard, Antoinette - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 16 (2009) 3, pp. 431-453
This paper is a study of Bentham's felicific calculus. Challenging a view that contrasts 'cardinal' to 'ordinal' calculus, we show that these two forms of calculus constitute instead different phases of a single approach. Bentham sometimes has to rely upon proxy variables because of operational...