 Similarly, various strands in the influential American legal academic enterprise of ‘economic analysis of law’ share Bentham’s debunking attitude toward central legal terms such as ‘right’ and ‘obligation’. Like Bentham, some economic analysts oscillate (or equivocate) between (1) a moral theory that reduces those normative terms to terms describing maximization of human satisfactions, and (2) a theory that does not engage in moral argument, but only claims to describe human motivation, accounting for terms such as ‘right’ and ‘obligation’ as rhetorical epithets that agents use to pursue what they will (see the entry on the  economic analysis of law,  section 2.2).