Imagining Interest in Political Thought - Origins of Economic Rationality

Engelmann revisits Jeremy Bentham's work in the context of later liberal political theorists.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

1. Introduction 1

2. Against the Usual Story 17

3. Virtuous Economies 35

4. Imagining Interest 48

5. State Rationality 77

6. The Public Interest 104

7. The Economic Polity 141

Notes 151

Index 185

About the author

Stephen G. Engelmann

Summary

Argues that monistic interest - or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined economies of self and public interest - constitutes the end and means of contemporary liberal government. This title places Benthamite utilitarianism at the center of his account and, in so doing, reclaims Bentham for liberal political theory.

Product details

• Authors: ENGELMANN, Stephen G Engelmann, Stephen G. Engelmann
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2003
• EAN: 9780822331353
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3135-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 422 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Wirtschaftsgeschichte