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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 437 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Street Porter and the Philosopher Contextualized / Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy 1

Part 1 Politics, Markets, and Equality

2 Politics as Exchange or Politics as Power: Two Views of Government / James M. Buchanan, Warren J. Samuels 15

3 The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading / David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart 41

4 Economic Organization, Distribution, and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engels Perspective / Samuel Hollander 64

5 Robust Analytical Egalitarianism: Worst-Case Political Economy and the Socialist Calculation Debate / Eric Crampton, Andrew Farrant 108

Part 2 Smithian Themes

6 Sacred Economics / Deirdre McCloskey 135

7 The Origins of Das Adam Smith Problem and Our Understanding of Sympathy / Leonidas Montes 158

8 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand / Warren J. Samuels 179

9 In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith's Thinking / Maria Pia Paganelli 202

10 The Measure of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science of Equity / Eric Schliesser 228

Part 3 The Role of the Expert

11 Attitudes toward Race, Hierarchy, and Transformation in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of the Expert / Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy 239

12 Frank Knight, Worst-Case Theorizing, and Economic Planning: Socialism as Monopoly Politics / Andrew Farrant 261

13 On Hayek's Road to Serfdom: Sixty Years Later / M. Ali Khan 269

14 Hiring a Foreign Expert: Chile in the Nineteenth Century / Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian 289

Part 4 Literature, Biology, and Economics

15 Is a Novel a Model? / Tyler Cowen 319

16 Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics / Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy 338

17 More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era / Thomas C. Leonard 358

18 Evolution and Human Behavior / Gordon Tullock 383

Part 5 The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence

19 Introduction and Correspondence / David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472116447

0472116444

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.212207

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.