Jeremy Bentham to the fundamental concepts employed in his model of utilitarian decision making. His work is considered to be an early precursor of modern welfare economics. Bentham stated that pleasures and pains can be ranked according to their value or "dimension" such as intensity, duration, certainty of a pleasure or a pain. He was concerned with maxima and minima of pleasures and pains; and they set a precedent for the future employment of the maximisation principle in the economics of the consumer, the firm and the search for an optimum in welfare economics. Bentham advocated "Pauper Management" which involved the creation
What Should Legal Analysis Become? Lorne. "The Politics of Imagination" (review of "What Should Legal Analysis Become?") 47 University of Toronto Law Journal 523 (1997) Unger, Roberto Mangabeira. "What Should Legal Analysis Become?". Verso Books, 1996. Waldron, Jeremy. "Dirty Little Secret" (review of "What Should Legal Analysis Become?"), 98 Columbia Law Review 510 (1998). What Should Legal Analysis Become? What Should Legal Analysis Become? is a book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. First published in 1996, the book germinated from lectures Unger gave at Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and the London School of Economics. In the book, Unger argues that in