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UNINA9910792445203321 |
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Autore |
Peart Sandra |
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Titolo |
The "vanity of the philosopher" : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics / / Sandra J. Peart & David M. Levy |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-44515-4 |
9786612445156 |
0-472-02388-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics - History - 19th century |
Classical school of economics |
Equality - Economic aspects |
Eugenics - Economic aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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