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The Street Porter and the Philosopher : Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism.
Title:
The Street Porter and the Philosopher : Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism.
Author:
Levy, David M.
ISBN:
9780472024148
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (446 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Street Porter and the Philosopher Contextualized -- PART 1 Politics, Markets, and Equality -- 2 Politics as Exchange or Politics as Power: Two Views of Government -- 3 The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading -- 4 Economic Organization, Distribution, and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engels Perspective -- 5 Robust Analytical Egalitarianism: Worst-Case Political Economy and the Socialist Calculation Debate -- PART 2 Smithian Themes -- 6 Sacred Economics -- 7 The Origins of Das Adam Smith Problem and Our Understanding of Sympathy -- 8 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand -- 9 In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith's Thinking -- 10 The Measure of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science of Equity -- PART 3 The Role of the Expert -- 11 Attitudes toward Race, Hierarchy, and Transformation in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of the Expert -- 12 Frank Knight, Worst-Case Theorizing, and Economic Planning: Socialism as Monopoly Politics -- 13 On Hayek's Road to Serfdom: Sixty Years Later -- 14 Hiring a Foreign Expert: Chile in the Nineteenth Century -- PART 4 Literature, Biology, and Economics -- 15 Is a Novel a Model? -- 16 Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics -- 17 More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era -- 18 Evolution and Human Behavior -- PART 5 The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence -- 19 Introduction and Correspondence -- The Texts -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings.
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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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