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Writings on Political Economy - Volume II (Hardcover)
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Writings on Political Economy - Volume II (Hardcover)
Series: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
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The works contained in this volume, 'Supply without Burthen' and
'Proposals relative to divers modes of Supply', were drafted by
Bentham in 1794, during an intense period of activity in which he
set out systematically to review possible sources of public
revenue. Bentham had long believed that the appropriation of a
proportion of the estates of those dying without near relations
offered a painless method of raising public revenue, and now
developed the proposal in detail, before sending a precis to
Charles Long, Secretary to the Treasury. Fifteen months later that
precis, with some additions, was published as 'Supply without
Burthen', and opens the present volume. Bentham drafted
considerable additional material for 'Supply without Burthen' which
was neither sent to Long nor published, and which is the source for
four Appendices in the present volume. By late September 1794,
Bentham envisaged 'Supply without Burthen' as the first of a
related series of proposals for generating public revenue. The
remaining proposals ranged from further painless expedients,
through taxation with compensatory benefit, to taxation pure and
simple. Since Bentham viewed all these proposals as connected
elements of a single generic enterprise, the fruits of his labours
(excepting the proposal which he did publish, namely 'Supply
without Burthen') are published together for the first time in the
present volume as 'Proposals relative to divers modes of Supply'.
This work is followed by six Appendices which shed further light on
Bentham's approach to raising public revenue, including his first
articulation of what would reappear five years later as his Annuity
Note Scheme.
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