The street porter and the philosopher : conversations on analytical egalitarianism / edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peart, Sandra.

Levy, David M., 1944-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: The Street Porter and the Philosopher Contextualized

PART 1 Politics, Markets, and Equality

2 Politics as Exchange or Politics as Power: Two Views of Government

3 The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading

4 Economic Organization, Distribution, and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engels Perspective

5 Robust Analytical Egalitarianism: Worst-Case Political Economy and the Socialist Calculation Debate

PART 2 Smithian Themes

6 Sacred Economics

7 The Origins of Das Adam Smith Problem and Our Understanding of Sympathy

8 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand

9 In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith's Thinking

10 The Measure of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science of Equity

PART 3 The Role of the Expert

11 Attitudes toward Race, Hierarchy, and Transformation in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of the Expert

12 Frank Knight, Worst-Case Theorizing, and Economic Planning: Socialism as Monopoly Politics

13 On Hayek's Road to Serfdom: Sixty Years Later

14 Hiring a Foreign Expert: Chile in the Nineteenth Century

PART 4 Literature, Biology, and Economics

15 Is a Novel a Model?

16 Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics

17 More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era

18 Evolution and Human Behavior

PART 5 The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence

19 Introduction and Correspondence

The Texts

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-43780-1

9786612437809

0-472-02414-0

OCLC:

587571677