The "vanity of the philosopher" : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics / Sandra J. Peart, & David M. Levy.
2005
HB85 .P43 2005
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Title
The "vanity of the philosopher" : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics / Sandra J. Peart, & David M. Levy.
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ISBN
9780472023882 (electronic bk.)
0472023888 (electronic bk.)
0472114964 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472114962 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472023888 (electronic bk.)
0472114964 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472114962 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages) : illustrations
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HB85 .P43 2005
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(OCoLC)652179865
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and indexes.
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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.
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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