A history of utilitarian ethics: studies in private motivation and distributive justice, 1700-1875
In: Routledge studies in the history of economics volume 223
John Locke, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Lord Shaftesbury, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Two Shaftesbury critics: Bernard Mandeville and John Brown -- Francis Hutcheson and the Hutcheson-Locke relation -- David Hume, utilitarian ethics, the moral sense and distributive justice -- C.A. Helvétius and David Hartley: utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Utilitarian ethics in the theory of moral sentiments -- Utilitarian ethics and distributive justice in the wealth of nations -- Bentham, utilitarian ethics and distributive justice -- Bentham in relation to Locke and the eighteenth-century literature -- Malthus and the utilitarians -- Malthus, distributive justice and the equality issue -- Mill, distributive justice and reform -- Mill, ethical progress and personal liberty -- Mill and the moral sense: the return to Bentham (and Hutcheson).