Cet article a pour objet de montrer que la tradition associant l'utilitarisme de Bentham au libéralisme économique conduit à négliger la singularité d'une approche dans laquelle la sphère économique ne peut être pensée comme autonome par rapport à la législation. L'accent est placé...

French liberal economists share a very surprising reading of Bentham's theory. In this paper, we underline the method according to which these French liberal economists in the nineteenth century economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism: they consider that utilitarianism deals with...

This paper explores the link between utilitarianism and feminism through the positions of John Stuart Mill. We try to reconcile Mill's conviction about the necessity of establishing equality between sexes with his position concerning the employment of married women. This reconciliation has...

Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage paru chez Oxford, édité par Ph. Schofield, C. Pease-Watkin et C. Blamires, "Jeremy Bentham, Rights, representation and reform. Nonsense upon stilts and other writings on the French Revolution"

This paper reconsiders the debate over the nature of Ricardian economics, chiefly based on the interpretation of Ricardo's Essay on Profits, that raged during the 1970's. This debate opposed a Sraffian view, in the line of Sraffa's 1951 well known Introduction to Ricardo, and a non-Sraffian...

This paper aims at exploring, in a formal way, Bentham's statement that “the pleasure of gaining is not equal to the evil of losing”, which belongs to those aspects of the principle of utility left aside by Jevon's reconstruction. Consequently, the agent's preference order will be viewed as...

Lorsque les "Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la Théorie des richesses" de Cournot paraissent en 1838, elles ne suscitent guère d'intérêt, si ce n'est en Allemagne où elles font l'objet d'une traduction. A l'inverse, Cournot tient aujourd'hui une place importante en économie,...

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...