Jeremy Bentham, ‘The Psychology of Economic Man’, and Behavioural Economics

Section 1 briefly reviews first the received interpretation of Bentham, which sees him as having had little to do with the development of economics (excepting some passing mentions which recognize his deployment of the concept of utility or his reduction of human motivation to self-interest, and per...

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Main Author: Michael Quinn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2016-03-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/2249