Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains. In aa Series of Letters to a Friend. To Which is Added, a Letter to Adam Smith, Esq; LL.D. On the Discouragements opposed by the above Restraints to the Progress of Inventive Industry

Published by Printed for T. Payne, and Son, London:, 1790

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12mo, second edition, [vi], [1] - 206 pp., bound in contemporary calf, red leather spine label, binding worn, rubbed, and scuffed, front board detached but present, ex-library, hand-stamps on verso of title-page, text clean, else very good. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), trained as a lawyer, though he early retired to a life of research and propaganda, became the undisputed leader of the utilitarian circle and the central figure of a group usually described as Philosophical Radicals.

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Title
Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains. In aa Series of Letters to a Friend. To Which is Added, a Letter to Adam Smith, Esq; LL.D. On the Discouragements opposed by the above Restraints to the Progress of Inventive Industry
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Bentham, Jeremy
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Printed for T. Payne, and Son, London:
Publication year
1790
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Hardcover
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2nd Edition

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