ABSTRACT

Part 3, Chapter 13. Detailed contents: 13.1 Hedonist theory, means of production owners and other moneyed persons. 13.2 A role for investors, interests and even usury. 13.2.1 Profits to capital would originate in superintendence and abstinence/sacrifice (from pleasure as in hedonism). 13.2.2. The entrepreneur enters hedonist economic theory. 13.2.3 Hedonist theory of profits and interest rates, which aligns with Bentham’s defense of usury. 13.3 A role for owners of natural agents to contribute with the hedonist service of nature. 13.4 Human workers as commodities and capital purposed to generate hedonism in self-regulating markets. 13.5 The case of slavery. 13.6 Conclusion.