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The "vanity of the philosopher" : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.