Notes on a possible Bentham manuscript: a mystery unresolved
报告了在剑桥三一学院图书馆发现的一份手稿,可能是皮耶罗·斯拉法提及的边沁手稿,但实际为詹姆斯·穆勒笔迹,对研究李嘉图经济学和思想史有价值。
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, the author 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. (c) 1996 Academic Press Limited Copyright 1996 by Oxford University Press.