Defence of Usury

An 1818 edition which combines Bentham’s defence of the practice of charging interest on loans with a critique of certain taxes which increased the cost of appearing before the courts.

Another copy of this book can be found in HTML format at our sister website Econlib.

  • EBook PDF
    This text-based PDF or EBook was created from the HTML version of this book and is part of the Portable Library of Liberty.
  • ePub
    ePub standard file for your iPad or any e-reader compatible with that format
  • Facsimile PDF
    This is a facsimile or image-based PDF made from scans of the original book.
  • Kindle
    This is an E-book formatted for Amazon Kindle devices.

Citation

Defence of Usury; shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains; in Letters to a Friend. To which is added A Letter to Adam Smith, Esq. LL.D. on the Discouragements opposed by the above Restraints to the Progress of Inventive Industry; and to which is also added, A Protest against Law-Taxes (London: Payne and Foss, 1818).

Category:

Related Collections:

Key Quotes

Economics

Among the various species or modifications of liberty, of which on different occasions we have heard so much in England, I do not recollect ever seeing any thing yet offered in behalf of the liberty of making one’s own terms in money-bargains. From so general and universal a neglect, it is an old…

Learn more