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The "vanity of the philosopher", <i>The Vanity of the Philosopher</i> continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book <i>How the Dismal Science Got Its Name</i>.
Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics, The \
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The "vanity of the philosopher", The Vanity of the Philosopher continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name. Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics, The \"vanity of the philosopher\"
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  • The "vanity of the philosopher"
  • Written by author Sandra J. Peart,David M. Levy
  • Published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005, 2005/09/30
  • The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name. Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics
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Pt. I Equality versus hierarchy
1 Analytical egalitarianism and its opposition 3
2 Perceiving race and hierarchy 15
Pt. II Classical economics and the cattle herders
3 Hierarchy and transformation : "chemical political economy" 31
4 Denying human homogeneity : eugenics and the making of postclassical economics 58
5 Statistical prejudice : from eugenics to immigration 87
6 Picking losers for sterilization : eugenics as demographic central planning 104
Pt. III Debating sympathy
7 Sympathy and its discontents : "greatest happiness" versus the "general good" 129
8 "Who are the canters?" : the coalition of evangelical-economic egalitarians 154
9 A discipline without sympathy : the happiness of the majority and its demise 180
10 Darwin and the differential capacity for happiness : from cardinal to ordinal utility theory 208
Pt. IV The theorist in the model
11 Analytical egalitarianism, anecdotal evidence, and information aggregation via proverbial wisdom 237
Pt. V Conclusion
12 Sympathy and the past : our "stock in dead people" reconsidered 265
Postscript : a letter from M. Ali Khan 270
App Galton's two papers on voting as robust estimation 273


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