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Here is the final version of the programme of the Colloquium on the 
Economic Thought of Jeremy Bentham. 
 
Yasunori Fukagai 
 
 
Colloquium on the Economic Thought of Jeremy Bentham 
January 26 - 27, 2002 
Tokyo Metropolitan University 
Room 107, General Education Building 
 
 
Saturday, 26 January 
10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks 
Professor Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) 
 
10:10-11:10 Session 1 
Paper: Professor Philip Schofield (University College London, UK) 
"Werner Stark and the economic writings of Jeremy Bentham" 
discussant: Professor Yoshio Nagai (Kanto Gakuin University, Japan) 
 
11:30-12:40 Lunch 
 
13:00-14:45 Session 2 
Paper 1: Professor Marco Guidi (Brescia, Italy) 
"Inventive industry in Bentham's early reflections on political economy 
(1778-1787)" 
Paper 2: Professor Nathalie Sigot (Besanson, France) 
"Art and science according to Bentham" 
discussant: Professor Daisuke Arie (Yokohama National University, Japan) 
 
14:45-15:10 break 
 
15:15-16:15 Session 3 
paper: Professor Annie Cot (Paris-I, France) 
"Let there be no distinction between the sexes" : Jeremy Bentham on the 
status of women" 
discussant: Professor Philip Schofield (University College London, UK) 
 
16:15-16:40 break 
 
16:45-18:30 Session 4 
Paper 1: Dr. Michael Quinn (University College London, UK) 
"The fallacy of non-interference: The Poor Panopticon and equality of 
opportunity" 
Paper 2: Professor Katsuyoshi Watarai (Waseda University, Japan) 
"Bentham, Malthus and Ricardo on Poor Laws" 
discussant: Professor Nathalie Sigot (Besanson, France) 
 
 
Sunday, 27 January 
 
9:30-11:10 Session 5 
Paper 1: Dr. Sandrine Leloup (Paris-I, France) 
"Do passions calculate? Bentham's analysis" 
Paper 2: Professor Evert Schoorl (Groningen, Netherlands) 
"Jean-Baptiste Say as a Benthamite: positive and normative utilitarianism" 
discussant: Professor Annie Cot (Paris-I, France) 
 
11:30-12:40 Lunch 
 
13:00-14:40 Session 6 
Paper 1: Professor Ghislain Deleplace and Professor Nathalie Sigot 
(Paris-VIII / Besanson, France) 
"Bentham's French manuscript and Ricardo: a missed opportunity" 
Paper 2: Professor Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) 
"Jeremy Bentham on production of wealth and population mechanism" 
discussant: Professor Marco Guidi (Brescia, Italy) 
 
14:40-15:10 break 
 
15:15-16:10 Session 7 
Professor Takuo Dome (Osaka University, Japan) 
"Bentham's principles of legislation in matters of finance" 
discussant: Professor Ghislain Deleplace (Paris-VIII, France) 
 
16:25-18:00 Session 8 
Paper 1: Dr. Chiara Baroni (University of Manchester, UK) 
"A reconsideration of the nature and relevance of Bentham's notion of 
utility" 
Paper 2: Dr. Byron Kaldis (Athens University of Economics and Business, 
Greece) 
"Bentham's Socratic 'Metric': Could welfare economics be both science and 
ethics?" 
discussant to paper 1: Professor Evert Schoorl (Groningen, Netherlands) 
discussant to paper 2: Professor Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan 
University, Japan) 
 
18:00-18:10 Concluding remarks 
Professor Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) 
 
 
Organising Committee: 
(head) Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 
Daisuke Arie (Yokohama National University) 
Katsuyoshi Watarai (Waseda University) 
 
Contact: 
Yasunori Fukagai 
Tokyo Metropolitan University 
Faculty of Economics 
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