An edition of The "vanity of the philosopher" (2005)

The "vanity of the philosopher"

from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics

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An edition of The "vanity of the philosopher" (2005)

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from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics

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English
Pages
323

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.15/3
Library of Congress
HB85 .P43 2005, HB85.P43 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
323

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3301101M
Internet Archive
vanityofphilosop0000pear
ISBN 10
0472114964
LCCN
2004030730
OCLC/WorldCat
57344128
Library Thing
1134825
Goodreads
317801

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