Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Fall 2020), pp. 195-209 (15 pages) At nearly the same moment, Jeremy Bentham and Henry Thornton adopted diametrically opposed approaches to ...