...Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche; Annie L. Cot This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages...

...), originally appeared in Mind in 1879 as an article clearly meant to be-indeed only fully understandable as-a sequel to the “exact utilitarianism” of NOME (p. 39). It is unfortunate that past discussions of Edgeworth’s utilitarianism have usually been confined to MP,since an appreciation of his...

...: Edgeworth s Exact Utilitarianism, 1877 1881. Utilitas 25, no. 4: 487 503. Kargon, Robert. 1969. Model and Analogy in Victorian Science: Maxwell s Critique of the French Physicists. Journal of the History of Ideas 30, no. 3: 423 36. Lambert, Kevin. 2011. The Uses of Analogy: James Clerk Maxwell s...

...: Edgeworth’s ‘Exact Utilitarianism’ (1877–81 Utilitas 25 (4): 487–503. Keynes, J. M. (1921) 1973. A Treatise on Probability. Vol. 8 of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. London: Macmillan. 1923. A Tract on Monetary Reform. London: Macmillan. (1924) 1983. “Investment Policy for Insurance...

... exhibits the impact of Cohen’s technicist reading of Mam and Rawls’ critique of the utilitarian theory of justice on one group of Marxist theo- reticians but also demonstrates the historical and continuing impact (represented in varying degrees in the works of Rawls and Cohen) of the concepts...

...Jeffrey T. Young Duke University Press 2005 Campbell, T. D., and I. S. Ross. 1981 . The Utilitarianism of Adam Smith's Policy Advice. Journal of the History of Ideas 42 : 73 -92. Griswold, Charles L., Jr. 1999 . Adam Smith and the Virtues of the Enlightenment . Cambridge...

...Stanley Hauerwas In this brief response to Brad Bateman's address I suggest that Adam Smith's contribution to “economics” is more nuanced than many of his interpreters suggest when they characterize him as a utilitarian. Rather what Smith provided was an intellectual expression of “economics...

... devastatingly exact and robust that it is open to criticism” (pp. 34-35). Witte’s survey progresses to the modem revival of the utilitarian approach, “optimal tax theory,” which seeks to account for vari- ous economic effects, such as tax disincentives, as well as for the sacrifice effects. In his...

... or 1938. The one generalization, which is less general than that provided by Diamond and Mirrlees, could have been provided by drawing on various relevant results to be found in the Italian economic literature by 1915 and the utilitarian social welfare function...

...] 1958 . The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method . New York:Dover. ____. 1884 . Investigations in Currency and Finance . Edited by H. S. Foxwell. London: Macmillan and Co. ____. [1890] 1971 . Utilitarianism: In Pure Logic and Other Minor Works , edited by Robert...

... with each other quoting long passages from the Latin classics from memory (1). What Vivenza has done is to familiarize herself with the Latin and Aristotelian literature that influenced Smith and, at the same time, assimilated the total Smithian corpus so she could recognize similar or exact phrasing...

... there is a great difference between Ricar- dian land (indestructible as originally endowed) and empirical land, exaction of the full rent on the latter will in the long run reduce outlays for mainte- nance and impair productivity. And even if Ricardian rent can be neatly iden- tified, its removal may...

... a.reasonably clear set of goals. In the first instance, the economy should be organized to foster economic growth. As a utilitarian liberal, he also attached importance to a satisfactory distribution of income. Aggregative economic ex- pansion would ultimately be self-defeating if the masses...

... in December 2003, and at ESHET in February 2004. I am grateful for the lively and useful discussions that ensued at both meetings. History of Political Economy 38:1 © 2006 by Duke University Press. 16 History of Political Economy 38:1 (2006) a modifi ed, watered-down utilitarianism that underwrote his...

... to Smith’s views on that subject through his having read The wealrh of narions in the early months of 1856 (Black 1973-81, 7:115). An intriguing aspect of Jevons’s concept of the selfish nature of man is the question of the obvious utilitarian ref- erences. True, My novel mentions both utilitarianism...

... on economic science. . . . - J. A. Blanqui, History of Economic Thought in Europe, 1837’ Most economists would agree that the spirit of quantitative rationality and subjective individualism promoted by Benthamite utilitarianism provided the touchstone for the rigorous theoretical...

... of classical utilitarianism, cementing Sidgwick's place as one of the great philosophers of ethics during the Victorian period, and the source of his deep-seated need for the very religion to which he himself could no longer subscribe. Sidgwick's studies in political economy carried this ethical perspective...

...: Murray. Corsi, P. 1987 . The Heritage of Dugald Stewart: Oxford Philosophy and the Method of Political Economy. Nuncius 11.2 : 89 -144. Crimmins, J. E. 1990 . Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham . Oxford: Clarendon. De...

... , T. D. , and I. S. Ross. 1981 . Adam Smith's utilitarian policy advice. Journal of the History of Ideas . 42 . 1 ( January-March ): 73 -92. Chappell , V. C. , ed. 1966 . Hume . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. Flew , Antony . 1986 . David Hume, philosopher of moral science...

... mentioned by Pope Pius XI, resting philosophically and psychologically on rationalist, utilitarian individualism and advocating policies of laissez-faire, was strongly influenced by the ‘constructivis- tic’ approach. In Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Schumpeter sought to provide...