How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-text of Racial PoliticsUniversity of Michigan Press, 2001 - 320 стор. It is widely asserted that the Victorian sages attacked classical economics from a humanistic or egalitarian perspective, calling it "the dismal science," and that their attack is relevant to modern discussions of market society. David M. Levy here demonstrates that these assertions are simply false: political economy became "dismal" because Carlyle, Ruskin, and Dickens were horrified at the idea that systems of slavery were being replaced by systems in which individuals were allowed to choose their own paths in life. At a minimum, they argued, "we" white people ought to be directing the lives of "them," people of color. Economists of the time argued, on the other hand, that people of color were to be protected by the rule of law--hence the moniker "the dismal science." A startling image from 1893, which is reproduced in full color on this book's jacket, shows Ruskin killing someone who appears to be nonwhite. A close look reveals that the victim is reading "The Dismal Science." Levy discusses this image at length and also includes in his text weblinks to Carlyle's "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" and to Mill's response, demonstrating that these are central documents in British classical economics. He explains Adam Smith's egalitarian foundations, contrasting Smith's approach to the hierarchical alternative proposed by Carlyle. Levy also examines various visual representations of this debate and provides an illuminating discussion of Smith's "katallactics," the science of exchange, comparing it with the foundations of modern neoclassical economics. How the Dismal Science Got Its Name also introduces the notion of "rational choice scholarship" to explain how attacks on market economics from a context in which racial slavery was idealized have been interpreted as attacks on market economics from a humanistic or egalitarian context. Thus it will greatly appeal to economists, political scientists, philosophers, students of Victorian literature, and historians. David M. Levy is Associate Professor of Economics and Research Associate, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University. |
Зміст
Poets Come Bringing Death to Friends of the Dismal Science | 3 |
Ecce Homo Symbols Make the Man | 29 |
Beginning with an Exchange or with a Command? | 41 |
A Rational Choice Approach to Scholarship | 58 |
Market Order or Hierarchy? | 79 |
Debating Racial Quackery | 81 |
Economic Texts as Apocrypha | 114 |
Hard Times and the Moral Equivalence of Markets and Slavery | 158 |
Exchange between Actor and Spectator | 201 |
The Partial Spectator in the Wealth of Nations A Robust Utilitarianism | 214 |
Katallactic Rationality Language Approbation and Exchange | 243 |
Adam Smiths Rational Choice Linguistics | 259 |
Bishop Berkeley Exorcises the Infinite | 268 |
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The Katallactic Moment | 199 |
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