Author: Jeremy Bentham
Title: Defence of Economy Against the Right Hon. George Rose
Description: London, The Pamphleteer, 1817. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce economics pamphlet by leading reformer Jeremy Bentham, the first separate edition of this essay. The very scarce first separate edition of this work, first published in Volume X of 'The Pamphleteer&apos.A treatise on economics by the leading and renowned figure Jeremy Bentham, written in reply to the ideas of George Rose.This work was written in particular in reply to Rose's 1810 'Observations', in which he dismissed the concerns of the growth of government spending during the Pitt administrations since 1780. Liberal Bentham took umbrage with this, hence this critical reply.Bentham is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism, an incredibly influential social reformer who advocated for the right to divorce, equal rights for women, and the separation of church and state. Unbound. Internally, generally firmly bound, strained between pages 296 and 297. Pages are lightly age-toned with the occasional spot, title page in particular is age-toned. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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