Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T07:45:53.510Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

JEREMY BENTHAM AND GARY BECKER: UTILITARIANISM AND ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2008

JIMENA HURTADO
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
A Mini-Symposium on Early Law and Economics
Information
Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 335 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Becker, Gary S. 1968. “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach.” Journal of Political Economy 76 (2): 169–217.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Becker, Gary S. 1976. The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Becker, Gary S. 1981. A Treatise on Family. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Becker, Gary S. 1993a. “Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior.” Journal of Political Economy 101 (3): 385–409.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Becker, Gary S. 1993b. “Economic Imperialism, Interview.” Religion and Liberty 3 (2). Available at: http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/interview.php?id=76 (11/04/05).Google Scholar
Becker, Gary S. and Murphy, Kevin M. 2000. Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Bentham, Jeremy. 1817. “Table of the Springs of Action.” In Goldworth, Amnon, ed., Deontology Together with a Table of the Springs of Action and Article on Utilitarianism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 3–116.Google Scholar
Bentham, Jeremy. 1834. “Deontology.” In Goldworth, Amnon, ed., Deontology Together with a Table of the Springs of Action and Article on Utilitarianism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 117–283.Google Scholar
Bentham, Jeremy. 1789. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, edited by Burns, J. H. and Hart, H. L. A. London: The Athlone Press, 1970. Reprinted with new introduction by F. Rosen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bentham, Jeremy. 1952. “The Philosophy of Economic Science.” In Stark, Werner, ed., Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, Vol. I. London: Published for the Royal Economic Society by George Allen and Unwin, pp. 81–119.Google Scholar
Bentham, Jeremy. 1954. “The Psychology of Economic Man.” In Stark, Werner, ed., Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, Vol. III. London: Published for the Royal Economic Society by George Allen and Unwin, pp. 419–50.Google Scholar
Bowles, Samuel and Gintis, Herbert. 1993. “The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 7 (1): 83–102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bowles, Samuel. 1998. “Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions.” Journal of Economic Literature 36 (March): 75–111.Google Scholar
Colander, David. 2000. “The Death of Neoclassical Economics.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 22 (2): 127–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davis, John B. 2003. The Theory of the Individual in Economics. London and New York: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elster, Jon. 1998. “Emotions and Economic Theory.” Journal of Economic Literature 36 (March): 47–74.Google Scholar
Evensky, Jerry. 2005. “‘Chicago Smith’ versus ‘Kirkaldy Smith’.” History of Political Economy 37 (2): 197–203.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fine, Ben. 2000. “Economics Imperialism and Intellectual Progress: The Present as History of Economic Thought.” History of Economics Review 32 (Summer): 10–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fine, Ben. 2002. “‘Economic Imperialism’: A View from the Periphery.” Review of Radical Political Economics 34 (2): 187–201.Google Scholar
Force, Pierre. 2003. Self-interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fuchs, Victor R. 1994. “Nobel Laureate: Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 8 (2): 183–92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gintis, Herbert. 2000. “Beyond Homo Economicus: Evidence from Experimental Economics.” Ecological Economics 35 (3): 311–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guidi, Marco E.L. 1997. “Bentham's Economics of Emulation.” Dipartmento di Studi Sociali, Università degli Studi di Brescia, DSS Papers. Presented at the Conference ISUS Utilitarianism Reconsidered. New Orleans: 22–23 March. Available at: http://fausto.eco.unibs.it/~segdss/paper/guidi97.pdf (28/03/05).Google Scholar
Guidi, Marco E. L. 2000. “Bentham's Economics of Legislation.” Dipartmento di Studi SocialiUniversità degli Studi di Brescia, DSS Papers STO 2–00: Available at http://fausto.eco.unibs.it/~segdss/paper/guidi00.pdf (20/12/05).Google Scholar
Halévy, Elie. 1901. La formation du radicalisme philosophique, 3 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995.Google Scholar
Hausman, Daniel and McPherson, Michael S. 1993. “Taking Ethics Seriously: Economics and Contemporary Moral Philosophy.” Journal of Economic Literature 31 (2): 671–731.Google Scholar
Hirschman, Albert O. 1984. “Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Economic Discourse.” American Economic Review 74 (2): 89–96.Google Scholar
Laval, Christian. 2003. Jeremy Bentham, les artifices du capitalisme. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.Google Scholar
Lazear, Edward. 2000. “Economic Imperialism.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (1): 99–146.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leloup, Sandrine. 2000. “Pour en finir avec l'usure. L'enjeu de la controverse entre Adam Smith et Jeremy Bentham.” Revue Economique 51 (4): pp. 913–36.Google Scholar
Lewin, Shira. 1996. “Economics and Psychology: Lessons for Our Own Day From the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of Economic Literature 34 (3): 1293–323.Google Scholar
McCloskey, Deirdre N. 1998. “Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S.” Journal of Economic History 58 (2): 297–317.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, Wesley C. 1916. “The Role of Money in Economic Theory.” American Economic Review, Supplement: Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association 6 (March): 140–61.Google Scholar
Mitchell, Wesley C. 1918. “Bentham's Felicific Calculus.” Political Science Quarterly 33 (2): 161–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Neill, Thomas P. 1949. “The Physiocrats’ Concept of Economics.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 63 (4): 532–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rabin, Mathew. 1998. “Psychology and Economics.” Journal of Economic Literature 36 (March): 11–46.Google Scholar
Reder, Melvin W. 1998. “The Chicago School.” In Eatwell, John, Milgate, Murray, and Newman, Peter, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, Vol. 1. Great Britain: Macmillan, pp. 413–17.Google Scholar
Robbins, Lionel. 1932. “The Nature and Significance of Economic Science.” In Hausman, Daniel M., ed., The Philosophy of Economics: An Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 83–110.Google Scholar
Rosen, Sherwin. 1993. “Risks and Rewards: Gary Becker's Contribution to Economics.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 95 (1): 25–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schumpeter, Joseph A. 1954. History of Economic Analysis. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967.Google Scholar
Sen, Amartya. 1977. “Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (4): 317–44.Google Scholar
Sidgwick, Henry. 1877. “Bentham and Benthamism in Politics and Ethics.” Fortnightly Review 21 (January-June): 627–52. Online: http://phare.univ.paris1.fr/textes/Sidgwick/Bentham.html.Google Scholar
Sigot, Nathalie. 2001. Bentham et l’économie. Une histoire d'utilité. Paris: Economica.Google Scholar
Sigot, Nathalie. 2002. “Jevons's Debt to Bentham: Mathematical Economy, Morals and Psychology.” The Manchester School 70 (2): 262–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stark, Werner, ed. 1952-54. Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, 3 vols. London. Published for the Royal Economic Society by George Allen and Unwin.Google Scholar
Stigler, George J. 1972. “La adopción de la teoría de la utilidad marginal.”History of Political Economy 4 (2): 571–87. Reprinted in: Stigler, George J., El Economista como Predicador y otros ensayos. Barcelona: Folio, 1987, pp. 113-32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stigler, George J. and Becker, Gary S.. 1977. “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum.” American Economic Review 67 (2): 76–90.Google Scholar
Zafirovski, Milan. 1999. “Economic Sociology in Retrospect and Prospect: In Search of its Identity within Economics and Sociology.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58 (4): 584–627.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zafirovski, Milan. 2000. “The Rational Choice Generalization of Neoclassical Economics Reconsidered: Any Theoretical Legitimation for Economic Imperialism?” Sociological Theory 18 (3): 448–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zafirovski, Milan. 2003. “Human Rational Behavior and Economic Rationality.” Electronic Journal of Sociology 7 (2). Available at http://www.sociology.org/content/vol7.2/02_zafirovski.html (13/04/05).Google Scholar