Books by Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham identifies and criticizes around fifty fallacious arguments used by politicians to thwart measures of reform, and exposes the sinister interests that lead to their employment. This edition restores Bentham's original structure and previously-omitted sections, and remains as relevant to political debate today as it was in his time.

Originally published in 1787, this work by the utilitarian philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) champions 'the liberty of making one's own terms in money bargains' and argues against government control of the rate of interest. It includes a letter to Adam Smith in response to his Wealth of Nations (1776).

Drawing on his knowledge of English political and constitutional practice, and the theoretical resources he had developed in his own work, the author suggested innovative measures to achieve the peaceful and constitutional reform in France. His writings for the French Revolution were dominated by the themes of rights, representation, and reform.

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), philosopher and reformer, is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age. This introduction to his writings presents a representative selection of texts authoritatively restored by the Bentham Project, University College London.

This volume takes as its main theme the demand for legislative control of the banking trade, with the aim of preventing the inflationary reduction of fixed incomes.

This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a "circulating currency": a government-sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money.

This volume covers the period 1787-1795 and contains "The Defence of Usury", the "Manual of Political Economy" in its authentic form and two financial treatises which reflect Bentham's work to find a way in which govenment could be carried on without taxation.

Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence is part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the late 1770s and early 1780s. An editorial introduction explains the provenance of the work, which is fully annotated with textual and historical notes.

The majority of the letters in this volume have not been previously published and illustrate many aspects of Bentham's public and private life. His writings are discussed, while the correspondence with his secretary, John Herbert Koe, gives an insight into Bentham's working methods.

Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is concerned with his persistent but eventually unsuccessful efforts to secure the implementation of his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters also throw light on his work in other fields, especially public finance and the reform of the police.

This volume contains the papers prepared by Bentham to illustrate his ideal of constitutional law, summed up in the aphorism of the title, and to contrast it with practice under the British constitution, which he believed to be based on entirely the opposite principle.

An examination of the progress of Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary scheme; his relations with Etienne Dumont and James Mill and his correspondence with the legal and political reformers of the day.

Bentham's central concern during the 1810s and 1820s was with the codification of the law. The materials presented in this volume constitute not only the basis for a biography of Bentham during these years, but also an important and illuminating account of his mature legal and political theory.

These essays, dating mainly from 1822 and 1823, propose models of legislation for two Mediterranean states. In the famous "Securities Against Misrule" Bentham draws up a constitutional charter for Tripoli. The writings for Greece include a commentary on the first Greek constitution of 1822.

One of the most important studies of colonialism written in the nineteenth century, Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitutional democracy. The four pioneering essays collected in this volume were written by Bentham in the early 1820s; three have never been published before.

"Political Tactics", composed for the Estates General in the months just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution, is one of Bentham's most original works. It contains the earliest and perhaps most important theoretical analysis of parliamentary procedure ever written.

These letters illustrate the composition, editing, publication, and reception of several of his works. The volume reveals Bentham's attempts to influence developments in France, the USA, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and South America.

This 7th volume of Bentham's correspondence, containing many letters never before published, includes exchanges with Sir Samuel Romilly and Francis Horner and shows aspects of his professional and personal life.

This eleventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence contains nearly three hundred letters, and covers the period from January 1822 to June 1824. By the early 1820s Bentham had acquired an international reputation, and corresponded with leading figures in Europe, the United States of America, and many of the newly independent states of Central and South America.

Four essays by Jeremy Bentham, dating from 1822, based exclusively on manuscripts, many of which have never been previously published. Bentham develops the general principles of constitutional law and government which underpin the administrative provisions set out in "Constitutional Code".

One of the earliest and best-known of Bentham's works, the Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation sets out a profound and innovative philosophical argument. This definitive edition includes both the late H. L. A. Hart's classic essay on the work and a new introduction by F. Rosen.

This volume makes available to a student readership one of the central texts in the utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected works.

A critical edition of three of Bentham's works, Deontology and The Article on Utilitarianism previously unpublished. Together with his "An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" , they provide a comprehensive picture of Bentham's psychological and ethical views.