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Henry Sidgwick is usually regarded as the third greatest classical utilitarian, after Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, and his masterpiece The Methods of Ethics (1874) is a classic of philosophical ethics. But Sidgwick was a many-sided late Victorian intellectual who should also be counted, with Alfred Marshall, as one of the leading figures in the Cambridge School of economics.
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Schultz, B. (2018). Sidgwick, Henry (1838–1900). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1733
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