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This chapter discusses the possible influence of Bentham on Ricardo's economics through three rendez-vous. The first one was mediated by James Mill: we show that (i) if Mill ever had an influence on Ricardo early in their relationship, he was not yet Benthamian, and (ii) if this influence was to...
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The aim of this paper is to show that Jevons's utilitarianism is to be related to his attempt to build a mathematical theory of economics: the 'felicific calculus' provides the instrument for transforming sensations into quantities. The first section shows that Jevons referred to Bentham's...
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