Abstract

This article examines the meaning of consumers’ sovereignty in the interwar thought of the economist William Harold Hutt. For Hutt, consumers’ sovereignty was an ideal, a norm against which economists could assess different economic systems. It connected the value of individual freedom, the commitment to a market society and an appeal to a liberal democracy. By coining the expression of consumers’ sovereignty, Hutt operated a creative re-description of the Millian idea of individual sovereignty which reflected the rise of the figure of the consumer in the public space. Hutt’s vision had been forged by the teaching he received at the London School of Economics and his involvement in the Individualist movement in the 1920s.

中文翻译：

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赫特（WH Hutt）与消费者主权的概念化

摘要

本文探讨了经济学家威廉·哈罗德·赫特（William Harold Hutt）在两次战争之间的思想中的消费者主权含义。对于赫特而言，消费者的主权是一种理想，经济学家可以根据该规范评估不同的经济体系。它把个人自由的价值，对市场社会的承诺以及对自由民主的呼吁联系在一起。通过创造消费者主权的表达，赫特对米利安关于个人主权的想法进行了创造性的重新描述，这反映了消费者在公共空间中的地位上升。赫特的眼光是由他在伦敦经济学院接受的教学以及他在1920年代参与个人主义运动所确立的。