Utilitarianism was a major philosophical movement of the nineteenth century which focused on maximising the happiness … utilitarians, including John Stuart Mill, were also early economists, but they largely rejected the use of utilitarianism in their … over the next 80 years had surprisingly little in common with utilitarian philosophy. In philosophy, utilitarianism went …

expropriation, promised meaningful long-term gains for the working classes. He endorsed laissez-faire capitalism because his theory …

political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points … grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of …