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Bentham Versus Blackstone

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  • Gertrude Himmelfarb

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Gertrude Himmelfarb considers Jeremy Bentham’s A Fragment on Government, published in 1776, which she describes as a critique of seven pages of the introduction of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in four volumes 1765–1770. Himmelfarb writes, “What Blackstone and the Founding Fathers had in common, and what Bentham notably lacked, was a large tolerance for complexity.” The essay is republished by permission, having appeared in The American Scholar in 1978 and, with revisions, in Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians in 1986.

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  • Gertrude Himmelfarb, 2020. "Bentham Versus Blackstone," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 17(1), pages 256–269-2, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:17:y:2020:i:1:p:256-269
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    Keywords

    Montesquieu; William Eden; Daniel Boorstin;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • B12 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals

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