Bentham's pioneering contribution in the field of Law & Economics and in the economic analysis of politics has sometimes been stressed by commentators. This paper aims to highlight the economic dimension that was present in Bentham's legal and political writings. Accordingly, the paper examines...

It is one of the assumptions of this paper that what is usually considered as a single hedonistic tradition was in fact the result of very different approaches to the analysis of individual decisions. Some of the differences between these approaches were also discussed by authors who aimed at...

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...