Economic Efficiency and Social Justice: The Development of Utilitarian Ideas in Economics from Bentham to Edgeworth

by John Bonner

Economic Efficiency and Social Justice traces the story of the development of utilitarian political economy. Bentham, James and John Mill, Jevons, Sidgwick and Edgeworth all saw themselves as members of a distinct school of economists who took the pursuit of happiness as a guiding principle for the behaviour of individuals and governments. The greatest or general happiness became the ultimate test for all public policy and economic issues. John Bonner's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852782951
• ISBN13: 9781852782955
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages