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When utilitarianism dominates justice as fairness : an economic defence of utilitarianism from the original position

Chung, Hun - In: Economics and philosophy 39 (2023) 2, pp. 308-333

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Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution, and the political economy of representation (1788 to 1789)

Guidi, Marco - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 17 (2010) 4, pp. 579-605

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...

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Speaking Platitudes to Power: Observing American Business Ethics in an Age of Declining Hegemony

Marens, Richard - In: Journal of Business Ethics 94 (2010) 2, pp. 239-253

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Utilitarianism, voting and the redistribution of income

Usher, Dan - 2017

Utilitarianism can be misplaced or ambiguous. As a prescription for individual behaviour, the injunction to seek the … can only be reconciled by compromise or by voting. The greatest number must be of citizens alive today, but governments …

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