TY - JOUR
T1 - Notes on a possible Bentham manuscript
T2 - A mystery unresolved
AU - Hollander, Samuel
N1 - Funding Information:
•University of Toronto. I gratefully acknowledge the permission accorded by The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge to publish the document printed below. Funding was kindly provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I am indebted to Donald Moggridge for making available to me a photocopy of the Catalogue of Piero Sraffa Papers held at Trinity College; to Jonathan Smith, Manuscript Cataloguer at the Trinity College Library; to Julian Conway, Curator, Manuscript Students' Room, British Library; to Stephen Conway, Fred Rosen and their collaborators at the Bentham Project, University College London; to Andre Lapidus of the Univereite de Paris; to Julia Fenn and Larry Johnston, literary executor to the late Robert Fenn; to Sue Golding and Kathy Kosmider, University of Greenwich; and to Giancarlo de Vivo for incisive objections to an earlier version which attributed the manuscript to Ricardo. R. D. C. Black, Pierangelo Garegnani, Heinz Kurz, Luigi Pasinetri, the late John M. Robson, Alessandro Roncaglia, Ajit Sinha, Brenda Sporton, Masazumi Wakatabe, and Donald Winch provided helpful advice and criticism. In particular, I owe a very substantial obligation indeed to Nathalie Sigot (Amiens), and to Pier Luigi Porta of the University of Milan for his invaluable assistance from the inception of this article. I alone bear responsibility for the commentary below.
PY - 1996/1/1
Y1 - 1996/1/1
N2 - In the Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (Volume X) Piero Sraffa noted that the Mill-Ricardo case of the Ricardo Papers deposited at Cambridge contained 'a paper probably in Bentham's hand-writing on the effects on profits of cultivating successive qualities of land'. In 1978 I made a search of the Ricardo Papers and no such document was to be found. This note reports the discovery in Trinity College Library - and provides a transcription - of a document that may be the elusive item, though it is in James Mill's hand.
AB - In the Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (Volume X) Piero Sraffa noted that the Mill-Ricardo case of the Ricardo Papers deposited at Cambridge contained 'a paper probably in Bentham's hand-writing on the effects on profits of cultivating successive qualities of land'. In 1978 I made a search of the Ricardo Papers and no such document was to be found. This note reports the discovery in Trinity College Library - and provides a transcription - of a document that may be the elusive item, though it is in James Mill's hand.
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U2 - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013638
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013638
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4444277022
SN - 0309-166X
VL - 20
SP - 623
EP - 635
JO - Cambridge Journal of Economics
JF - Cambridge Journal of Economics
IS - 5
ER -