The "vanity of the philosopher": from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics
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1. Verfasser: Peart, Sandra (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press ©2005
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Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 323 pages)
ISBN:0472023888
9780472023882

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