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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,...
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French liberal economists share a very surprising reading of Bentham's theory. In this paper, we underline the method according to which these economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism: they consider that utilitarianism deals with 'utility' but disregards justice. Such an interpretation...
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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...
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This article aims at showing how Bentham addressed the modern issue of the economic efficiency of the law (as defined by Posner) ; to do that, we focus on Defence of Usury [1787] and the manuscript Sur les prix [1801a] : in 1787, Bentham stated that, in order to increase wealth, the rate of...
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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,...
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