1  Cover

      2  Series Title

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright Page

      5  Dedication

      6  Acknowledgments

      7  Abbreviations

      8  Introduction

      9  1 Life and Logic : What Matters, and Why? § 1. Life and Work § 2. Logic and Language Conclusion Notes

      10  2 The Principle of Utility : Raising the Fabric of Felicity by the Hands of Reason and Law § 1. Psychology § 2. Morality § 3. Competing Principles § 4. Measuring Pleasures and Pains Conclusion Notes

      11  3 Direct Legislation : Bentham and Penal Law § 1. Law and Direct Legislation § 2. Ends of Punishment § 3. What to Punish, and What not to Punish § 4. How Much to Punish § 5. How to Punish: Properties Desirable in Punishments Conclusion Notes

      12  4 Indirect Legislation § 1. Acting on Will § 2. Acting on Power § 3. Acting on Knowledge § 4. Indirect Legislation, Behavioural Economics and Libertarian Paternalism § 5. The Moral and Religious Sanctions § 6. Fooling the Public? Conclusion Notes

      13  5 Civil Law and Political Economy § 1. Subordinate Ends of Legislation Subordinate Ends as Universal Human Interests Subsistence Security Abundance Equality § 2. Political Economy Departures from Smithian Orthodoxy 1. Defence of a Maximum 2. Paper Money Conclusion: Smith and Bentham – the Politics of Political Economy Notes

      14  6 Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (I) : Panoptic Architecture and Management § 1. The Inspection–Architecture Principle § 2. Complementing Architecture: ‘Book-keeping’, Contract-Management and Public Scrutiny Acting on Knowledge and Power Acting on Will § 3. Foucault, Panopticism and Governmentality Conclusion Notes

      15  7 Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (II) : The Prevention of Misrule § 1. Early Indifference § 2. 1789 and After § 3. Bentham’s Journey to Political Radicalism § 4. Bentham’s Democratic Polity Supreme Constitutive and the Public Opinion Tribunal Supreme Operative: Legislature, Administrative and Judicatory Conclusion: Two Issues Notes

      16  8 International Law, the World Next Door § 1. International ‘Law’ § 2. Bentham on Colonies Notes