The "vanity of the philosopher"
The "vanity of the philosopher": from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy,
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0472114964
DDC: 330.153
LCC: HB85
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and indexes.
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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