The "vanity of the philosopher"
Subtitle: from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics
By: Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy.
Contributors: Levy, David M., 1944-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Economics -- History -- 19th century.; Classical school of economics.; Equality -- Economic aspects.; Eugenics -- Economic aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Analytical egalitarianism and its opposition; title: Perceiving race and hierarchy; title: Hierarchy and transformation : "chemical political economy"; title: Denying human homogeneity : eugenics and the making of postclassical economics; title: Statistical prejudice : from eugenics to immigration; title: Picking losers for sterilization : eugenics as demographic central planning; title: Sympathy and its discontents : "greatest happiness" versus the "general good"; title: "Who are the canters?" : the coalition of evangelical-economic egalitarians; title: A discipline without sympathy : the happiness of the majority and its demise; title: Darwin and the differential capacity for happiness : from cardinal to ordinal utility theory; title: Analytical egalitarianism, anecdotal evidence, and information aggregation via proverbial wisdom; title: Sympathy and the past : our "stock in dead people" reconsidered; title: Postscript : a letter from M. Ali Khan.