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The "vanity of the philosopher" from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics
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The "vanity of the philosopher" [electronic resource] : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics / Sandra J. Peart, & David M. Levy.
ISBN
0472023888
9780472023882
0472114964 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472114962
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 323 p. :) ill. ;
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and indexes.
Contents
Analytical egalitarianism and its opposition
Perceiving race and hierarchy
Hierarchy and transformation : "chemical political economy"
Denying human homogeneity : eugenics and the making of postclassical economics
Statistical prejudice : from eugenics to immigration
Picking losers for sterilization : eugenics as demographic central planning
Sympathy and its discontents : "greatest happiness" versus the "general good"
"Who are the canters?" : the coalition of evangelical-economic egalitarians
A discipline without sympathy : the happiness of the majority and its demise
Darwin and the differential capacity for happiness : from cardinal to ordinal utility theory
Analytical egalitarianism, anecdotal evidence, and information aggregation via proverbial wisdom
Sympathy and the past : our "stock in dead people" reconsidered
Postscript : a letter from M. Ali Khan.
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