<title>Abstract</title> After David Ricardo had argued against it, Jeremy Bentham's manuscript <italic>Sur les prix</italic> was never published. Our paper deals with the reasons of that disagreement. After having told the story of the manuscript, we compare its content and the critiques on both the positive analysis of the...

[eng] La théorie monétaire de Bentham, telle qu'elle apparaît dans le manuscrit Sur les prix (1801) met l'accent sur la notion de confiance, élément clef dans la détermination de la valeur du papier-monnaie. Il en résulte une analyse qui s'intéresse de manière prioritaire à la...

While Jevons is well known for his analysis on pure economics his contributions to a broader conception of welfare including a social aspect has attracted less attention. However, from a history of economic thought perspective, these contributions have a twofold benefit: on the one hand, they...

This article deals with a French edition of Jeremy Bentham’s Selected Economic Writings. It aims at explaining the editorial choices that will be made, and underlining the difficulties faced by such an edition. Two kinds of difficulties are stressed: on the one hand, the singularity of...

Samuel Hollander recently found a manuscript, in Mill's hand, on the effects on profits of cultivating successive qualities of land. In this journal, he discussed the authorship of the document, suggesting either Bentham or Mill. The first hypothesis means that it was written long before 1815,...

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...