The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism
by Sandra Peart and David M. Levy
University of Michigan Press, 2009 eISBN: 978-0-472-02414-8 | Cloth: 978-0-472-11644-7 Library of Congress Classification JC575.S77 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.011
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde of economic thought rediscovered it and rechristened it "analytical egalitarianism." In this volume, Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy bring together an impressive array of authors to explore the ramifications of this analytical ideal and to discuss the ways in which an egalitarian theory of individuality can enable economists to reconcile ideas from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
"The analytical egalitarianism project that Peart and Levy have advanced has come to occupy a prominent place in the current agenda of historians of economic thought."
---Ross Emmett, Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Michigan Center for Innovation and Economic Prosperity, Michigan State University
"These essays and dialogs from the Summer Institute would make Adam Smith, economist and moral philosopher, proud."
---J. Daniel Hammond, Hultquist Family Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
With essays by:
James M. Buchanan, Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient (1985) and Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Juan Pablo Couyoumdijian, Universidad del Desearrollo, Chile
Tyler Cowen, George Mason University
Eric Crampton, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Andrew Farrant, Dickinson College
Samuel Hollander, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
M. Ali Khan, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Leonard, Princeton University
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago
Leonidas Montes, Dean of School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile
Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University and New York University
Warren J. Samuels, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
Eric Schliesser, VENI post-doctoral research fellow, Leiden University, and University of Amsterdam
Gordon Tullock, George Mason University
Sandra J. Peart is Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Virginia.
David M. Levy is Professor of Economics at George Mason University (GMU) and Research Associate at the Center for Study of Public Choice at GMU.
They are Co-Directors of George Mason University's Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Street Porter and the Philosopher Contextualized
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
Part I. Politics, Markets, and Equality
2. Politics as Exchange or Politics as Power : Two Views of Government
James M. Buchanan and Warren J. Samuels
3 The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic
Reading
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart
4. Economic Organization, Distribution, and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engels Perspective
Samuel Hollander
5. Robust Analytical Egalitarianism: Worst-Case Political Economy and the Socialist Calculation
Debate
Eric Crampton and Andrew Farrant
Part II. Smithian Themes
6. Sacred Economics
Deirdre McCloskey
7. The Origins of Das Adam Smith Problem and Our Understanding of Sympathy
Leonidas Montes
8. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
Warren J. Samuels
9. In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith's Thinking
Maria Pia Paganelli
10. The Measure of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science of Equity
Eric Schliesser
Part III. The Role of the Expert
11. Attitudes Toward Race, Hierarchy, and Transformation in the Nineteenth Century: The Role
of the Expert
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
12. Frank Knight, Worst-Case Theorizing, and Economic Planning: Socialism as Monopoly
Politics
Andrew Farrant
13. On Hayek's Road to Serfdom: Sixty Years Later
M. Ali Khan
14. Hiring a Foreign Expert: Chile in the Nineteenth Century
Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian
Part IV. Literature, Biology, and Economics
15. Is a Novel a Model?
Tyler Cowen
16. Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
17. More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive
Era
Thomas C. Leonard
18. Evolution and Human Behavior
Gordon Tullock
Part V. The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence
19. Introduction and Correspondence
The Texts
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism
by Sandra Peart and David M. Levy
University of Michigan Press, 2009 eISBN: 978-0-472-02414-8 Cloth: 978-0-472-11644-7
Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde of economic thought rediscovered it and rechristened it "analytical egalitarianism." In this volume, Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy bring together an impressive array of authors to explore the ramifications of this analytical ideal and to discuss the ways in which an egalitarian theory of individuality can enable economists to reconcile ideas from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
"The analytical egalitarianism project that Peart and Levy have advanced has come to occupy a prominent place in the current agenda of historians of economic thought."
---Ross Emmett, Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Michigan Center for Innovation and Economic Prosperity, Michigan State University
"These essays and dialogs from the Summer Institute would make Adam Smith, economist and moral philosopher, proud."
---J. Daniel Hammond, Hultquist Family Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
With essays by:
James M. Buchanan, Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient (1985) and Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Juan Pablo Couyoumdijian, Universidad del Desearrollo, Chile
Tyler Cowen, George Mason University
Eric Crampton, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Andrew Farrant, Dickinson College
Samuel Hollander, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
M. Ali Khan, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Leonard, Princeton University
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago
Leonidas Montes, Dean of School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile
Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University and New York University
Warren J. Samuels, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
Eric Schliesser, VENI post-doctoral research fellow, Leiden University, and University of Amsterdam
Gordon Tullock, George Mason University
Sandra J. Peart is Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Virginia.
David M. Levy is Professor of Economics at George Mason University (GMU) and Research Associate at the Center for Study of Public Choice at GMU.
They are Co-Directors of George Mason University's Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
\rrhp\
\lrrh: Contents\
\1h\ Contents \xt\
\comp: add page numbers on page proofs\
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Street Porter and the Philosopher Contextualized
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
Part I. Politics, Markets, and Equality
2. Politics as Exchange or Politics as Power : Two Views of Government
James M. Buchanan and Warren J. Samuels
3 The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic
Reading
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart
4. Economic Organization, Distribution, and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engels Perspective
Samuel Hollander
5. Robust Analytical Egalitarianism: Worst-Case Political Economy and the Socialist Calculation
Debate
Eric Crampton and Andrew Farrant
Part II. Smithian Themes
6. Sacred Economics
Deirdre McCloskey
7. The Origins of Das Adam Smith Problem and Our Understanding of Sympathy
Leonidas Montes
8. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
Warren J. Samuels
9. In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith's Thinking
Maria Pia Paganelli
10. The Measure of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science of Equity
Eric Schliesser
Part III. The Role of the Expert
11. Attitudes Toward Race, Hierarchy, and Transformation in the Nineteenth Century: The Role
of the Expert
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
12. Frank Knight, Worst-Case Theorizing, and Economic Planning: Socialism as Monopoly
Politics
Andrew Farrant
13. On Hayek's Road to Serfdom: Sixty Years Later
M. Ali Khan
14. Hiring a Foreign Expert: Chile in the Nineteenth Century
Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian
Part IV. Literature, Biology, and Economics
15. Is a Novel a Model?
Tyler Cowen
16. Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics and the Making of Postclassical Economics
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
17. More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive
Era
Thomas C. Leonard
18. Evolution and Human Behavior
Gordon Tullock
Part V. The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence
19. Introduction and Correspondence
The Texts
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you
with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.