Jeremy Bentham's economic writings : critical edition based on his printed works and unprinted manuscripts

Author(s)

• Bentham, Jeremy
• Stark, Werner

Bibliographic Information

Jeremy Bentham's economic writings : critical edition based on his printed works and unprinted manuscripts

by W. Stark

Routledge, 2004

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3

Note

Originally published: London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1952

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: set ISBN 9780415318662

Description

This set reprints three classic volumes on Jeremy Bentham's economic writings. Before these volumes were published a great deal of Jeremy Bentham's economic work was completely unknown. All three volumes contain historical introductions and collections of passages from Bentham's non-economic writings which illustrate his views on economics as a science and the problems of methodology. First published by George Allen & Unwin in the 1950s.

Table of Contents

Volume I 0-415-31867-X This volume covers the period 1787-1795 and contains the The Defence of Usury, the Manual of Political Economy in its authentic form and two financial treaties which reflect Bentham's work to find a way in which government could be carried on without taxation. Volume II 0-415-31868-8 This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a 'circulating currency': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money. The roots of this proposal are illustrated in two pamphlets from 1794-96, along with subsequent pamphlets and discussions which show Bentham's unsucccessful negotiations with the treasury on this matter. Volume III 0-415-31869-6 This volume takes as its main theme the demand for the legislative control of the banking trade, with the aim of preventing the inflationary reduction of fixed incomes

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780415318679

Description

This volume covers the period 1787-1795 and contains The Defence of Usury, the Manual of Political Economy in its authentic form and two financial treatises which reflect Bentham's work to find a way in which govenment could be carried on without taxation.

Table of Contents

• The Philosophy of Economic Science Defence of Usury Colonies and navy Manual of Political Economy Analytical view [or] Summary Sketch of Financial Resources, employed and employable Supply without Burthen
• or Escheat vice Taxation Tax with Monopoly Proposal for a mode of Taxation in which the Burthen may be alleviated or even balanced by an Indemnity

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780415318686

Description

This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a 'circulating currency': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money. The roots of this proposal are illustrated in two pamphlets from 1794-96, along with subsequent pamphlets and discussions which show Bentham's unsuccessful negotiations with the trasury on this matter.

Table of Contents

A Plan for Augmentation of the Revenue Proposal for the circulation of a [New] Species of Paper Currency Abstract or Compressed View of a Tract Intituled Circulating Annuities Paper Mischief [Exposed]

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780415318693

Description

This volume takes as its main theme the demand for legislative control of the banking trade, with the aim of preventing the inflationary reduction of fixed incomes.

Table of Contents

The True Alarm Of the Balance of Trade Defence of a maximum Institute of Political Economy Observations on the Restrictive and Prohibitory Commercial System [The Psychology of Economic Man]

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Details

• NCID: BA64516346
• ISBN:
  • 0415318661
  • 041531867X
  • 0415318688
  • 0415318696
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 330
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economics