
The "Vanity of the Philosopher" : From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics.
Title:
The "Vanity of the Philosopher" : From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics.
Author:
Peart, Sandra.
ISBN:
9780472023882
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Equality versus Hierarchy -- 1. Analytical Egalitarianism and Its Opposition -- 2. Perceiving Race and Hierarchy -- Part II: Classical Economics and the Cattle Herders -- 3. Hierarchy and Transformation: "Chemical Political Economy" -- 4. Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics -- 5. Statistical Prejudice: From Eugenics to Immigration -- 6. Picking Losers for Sterilization: Eugenics as Demographic Central Planning -- Part III: Debating Sympathy -- 7. Sympathy and Its Discontents: "Greatest Happiness" versus the "General Good" -- 8. "Who Are the Canters?": The Coalition of Evangelical-Economic Egalitarians -- 9. A Discipline without Sympathy: The Happiness of the Majority and Its Demise -- 10. Darwin and the Differential Capacity for Happiness: From Cardinal to Ordinal Utility Theory -- Part IV: The Theorist in the Model -- 11. Analytical Egalitarianism, Anecdotal Evidence, and Information Aggregation via Proverbial Wisdom -- Part V: Conclusion -- 12. Sympathy and the Past: Our "Stock in Dead People" Reconsidered -- Postscript: A Letter from M. Ali Khan -- Appendices: Galton's Two Papers on Voting as Robust Estimation -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Attempts to explain the shift from egalitarian Classical economic thought to the difference and hierarchy of post-Classical economic thinking.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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