Benthamism, Laissez Faire, and Collectivism

In the use of the terms 'laissez-faire and for the history of modern political and economic thought there has been no discernible ambiguity, but the antithetic political concepts to which these terms refer have, from a twentieth-century perspective, a somewhat baffling relationship. In successive interpretations of the era of laissez faire in Britain, individualism and collectivism seem perversely to shift their positions and even to exchange places. This process can be illustrated by turning to four discussions touching on that period and published within the last fifty years-A. V. Dicey's Law and Public Opinion in England' before the first World War, J. S. Schapiro's Utilitarianism and the Foundations of English Liberalism2 before the second World War, and, more recently, William Irvine's Shaw, the Fabians and the Utilitarians3 and J. B. Brebner's Laissez faire and State Intervention in Nineteenth Century Britain. 4

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