Table of contents for The "vanity of the philosopher" : from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics / Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: Equality versus Hierarchy
 1. Analytical Egalitarianism and Its Opposition
 2. Perceiving Race and Hierarchy
Part II: Classical Economics and the Cattle Herders
 3. Hierarchy and Transformation: "Chemical Political Economy"
 4. Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics
 5. Statistical Prejudice: From Eugenics to Immigration
 6. Picking Losers for Sterilization: Eugenics as Demographic Central Planning
Part III: Debating Sympathy
 7. Sympathy and Its Discontents: "Greatest Happiness" versus the "General Good"
 8. "Who Are the Canters?": The Coalition of Evangelical-Economic Egalitarians
 9. A Discipline without Sympathy: The Happiness of the Majority and Its Demise
 10. Darwin and the Differential Capacity for Happiness: From Cardinal to Ordinal Utility
Theory
Part IV: The Theorist in the Model
 11. Analytical Egalitarianism, Anecdotal Evidence, and Information Aggregation
 via Proverbial Wisdom
Part V: Conclusion
 12. Sympathy and the Past: Our "Stock in Dead People" Reconsidered
 13. Postscript: A Letter from M. Ali Khan
Appendices: Galton's Two Papers on Voting as Robust Estimation
 
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Economics -- History -- 19th century.
Classical school of economics.
Equality -- Economic aspects.
Eugenics -- Economic aspects.