| Description |
xviii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Economics -- History -- 19th century.
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Economics. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Classical school of economics.
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Classical school of economics. |
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Equality -- Economic aspects.
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Equality -- Economic aspects. |
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Equality. |
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Eugenics -- Economic aspects.
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Eugenics. |
| Added Author |
Levy, David M., 1944-
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| ISBN |
0472114964 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780472114962 cloth alkaline paper |
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