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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: happiness, utility and the Republic of Letters -- Happiness and interests in politics: a late-Enlightenment debate -- Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 -- Scepticism and Epicureanism: from David Hume to J. S. Mill -- Bentham on ‘Hume’s Virtues’ -- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on pleasure and virtue -- ‘The first article to look to is power’: Bentham, happiness and the capability approach -- Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms -- James Mill on happiness -- Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and higher pleasures -- Individualist and totalizing ethical thinking in Mill’s utilitarianism -- Mill and democracy: taking William Buckley seriously -- John Stuart Mill and the Jewish question: broadening the utilitarian maximand -- The failure of planned happiness: the rise and fall of British home colonies -- Making better sense of ideal utilitarianism.

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