Writings on Political Economy: Volume I (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham) - Hardcover

Bentham, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019876796X ISBN 13: 9780198767961

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In the mid-1780s Bentham drafted his first sustained discussions of political economy and public finance for Projet Matiere (itself part of Projet d'un corps de loix complet). Those discussions are now lost, but the corresponding marginal contents open this volume, followed by three closely related appendices. The volume continues with Defence of Usury, first published 1787, which was well received, quickly translated, and established some reputation for Bentham in political economy. In 1790, while preparing a second edition, Bentham drafted the raft of additional materials included here in five appendices. At the same time he began Manual of Political Economy, an introductory handbook which he never finished, while the surviving text appears here, supplemented by seven appendices. In March 1793 Bentham reacted to press reports of the Irish Budget by composing A Protest against Law Taxes, a trenchant critique of the taxation of legal proceedings, and the denial of justice to the poor, which was printed in 1793, published in 1795, and extended in 1816, and which completes the volume.

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About the Author

Michael Quinn is Research Associate on the Bentham Project at University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019876796X
• ISBN 13: 9780198767961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 476
• Editor: Quinn Michael