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Author:

Peart, Sandra.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xviii, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Economics--History--19th century.
Classical school of economics.
Equality--Economic aspects.
Eugenics--Economic aspects.

Other Authors:

Levy, David M., 1944-

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780472114962 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472114964 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004030730

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)