The "vanity of the philosopher" : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics / Sandra J. Peart, and David M. Levy.

By:

Peart, Sandra

Contributor(s):

Levy, David M, 1944-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780472023882
0472023888
1282445154
9781282445154
9786612445156
6612445157

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: "Vanity of the philosopher".DDC classification:

330.15/3 22

LOC classification:

HB85

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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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