Defence of usury

Defence of usury

shewing the impolicy of the present legal restraints on the terms of pecuniary bargains ; to which is added a letter to Adam Smith, esq. L. L. D. on the discouragement of inventive industry

por Jeremy Bentham
4/5
Primera publicación
1796
Editores
Printed for Mathew Carey· by Lang and Ustick
Idioma
English

This small book is an extension of some letters written to Adam Smith in the late 1780's by Jeremy Bentham attacking Smith's analysis on pp. 260-340 of The Wealth of Nations about the dangers of speculation (Bentham,like Milton Friedman,libertarians,and Austrian economists,confused entrepreneurship and enterprise with speculation).

Chiefly of historical interest. Many of the topics covered feel very trivial to the modern Western reader (e.

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