... liberal political values. Most of this literature has been ahistorical and hostile to utilitarianism. This essay aims at repositioning the luck debates in the context of John Stuart Mill's oft maligned essay, Utilitarianism . There, Mill posits that the historical progress of justice works against all...

...E. K. Hunt History of Political Economy 11:4 1979 by Duke University Press Utilitarianism and the labor theory of value: a critique of the ideas of William Thompson E. K. Hunt, University of Utah...

... psychics: an essay on the application of mathematics to the moral sciences . London. Edgeworth , F. Y. 1882 . ‘Mr. Leslie Stephen on utilitarianism.’ Mind 7 : 446 -447. Edgeworth , F. Y. 1887 . Metretike, or the method of measuring probability and utility . London. Edgeworth , F...

... to be a useful reference book and a valuable secondary source of information about the history of economic analysis. Texas Tech University LEWISE. HILL Utilitarianism and beyond. Edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams, Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press...

... on Cromwell and Others (1837-48). Vol. 3 of Life of Carlyle . London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Wilson, David Alec, and David W. MacArthur. 1934 . Carlyle in Old Age (1865-1881). Vol. 6 of Life of Carlyle . London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Thomas Carlyle on Utilitarianism Patrick J...

...Marco Dardi This article argues that Marshall's theory of market choice was originally elaborated within the classic framework of the use value/exchangeable value dichotomy, with reference to a version of utilitarianism that did not assume measurable utility. The key concepts were those of marginal...

... 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...

... pragmatic New System: a mercantile and utilitarian approach to Indian reform in Spanish colonies of the eighteenth century Josefina Cintrdn Tiryakian . . . the rudest nation . . . can be polished and the laziest people can be converted to work...

... of the links that should exist in industrial society between political economy and religion. A truly a-religious political economy based on self-interested behavior and utilitarianism, such as the one presented in Jean-Baptiste Say's writings, gained acceptance for most people interested in the “new” science...

...Bradley W. Bateman Efforts to consider economic life from a religious perspective almost always run headlong into the conflict between utilitarian values, which are the cornerstone of modern economic analysis, and religious values, which are almost uniformly nonutilitarian. This essay looks...

...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...

...Shiri Cohen Kaminitz The concept of utility, which stood at the heart of J. S. Mill’s utilitarian moral philosophy, played only a minor role in his account of economics. The economic idea of (individual) utility, as is well known, neither inspired Mill directly nor excited his attention when...

... generated a debate on the choice criteria of growth programs, opposing the productive efficiency typical of these models to the utilitarian approach supported by Malinvaud and Koopmans. The Vatican Conference of 1963, where Koopmans presented a first version of his 1965 model, was embedded in this debate...

... to serve this same utilitarian purpose. The pastoral moralists, on the other hand, wanted to divide faculty psychology's tripartite scheme in half. In their collective understanding, self-interest could go in either direction. The pastoral moralists therefore sought the point at which an individual's...

... as settled, but in fact deep-buried tensions lie underneath the apparently settled ground. When they choose one method to measure prices over another, environmental economists implicitly align themselves with one side or another of a debate between the role of utilitarianism and consumer sovereignty that has...

...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...

... in the science of political economy. Acknowledging and absorbing these changes, La Beaumelle's Pensées (1752) proposed a politics based on a naturalist anthropology with eugenic overtones and on a utilitarianism and commercial liberalism that functioned within the boundaries of the reason of state doctrine...

..., distinguish the core of the Filangerian proposal: the happiness of the nation needs an equitable distribution of wealth; the definition of the perfect model of justice is founded on an original utilitarian analysis which employs elements which anticipate the marginalism of the next century; to increase both...

.... Revealingly, in describing the microdynamics of market price formation, prominent neoclassical utilitarians such as Marshall, with his description of a “corn-market in a county town,” and Böhm-Bawerk with his farmers’ horse market, reverted to this classical reservation-value framework. Neoclassical Supply...

..., the founders of the optimal growth model and those bringing recursive methods to macroeconomics in the 1950s and 1960s, and, finally, those who reacted against this utilitarian approach to social planning problems. With this I hope to shed some historical light on how a practice that was condemned as ethically...