MORE NONSENSE ON STILTS: MR BENTHAM IS AT IT AGAIN

Anthony de Jasay

Economic Affairs, 2003, vol. 23, issue 3, 35-37

Abstract: Lord Layard recently suggested in a series of lectures at the LSE that economists should be concerned with developing policies to maximise human happiness. His bold resurrection of the Benthamite school invites the most forceful criticism that can be levelled against naïve utilitarianism.

Date: 2003
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