Henry Sidgwick (31 May 1838–28 August 1900) was an English philosopher and economist of the late 19th century. On economics, Henry Sidgwick was a something of a hybrid figure: he was not quite an orthodox neoclassical, but at the same time he had moved on from Classical Political Economy too. In politics, he was not quite a conservative, but not an orthodox Classical Liberal either.At any rate, in his book The Elements of Politics (2nd rev. edn., 1897), we have this discussion of...
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