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Some Normative Aspects of the Malthusian Controversy
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This article is published in History of Political Economy.The article was published on 1978-06-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Normative.read more
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Escape from Democracy: The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy
David M. Levy,Sandra J. Peart +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Levy and Peart examined the historical record to consider cases in which experts were trusted with disastrous results, such as eugenics, the regulatory use of security ratings, and central economic planning, and recovered and extended an alternative view of economic policy that subjects experts' proposals to further discussion, resulting in transparency and ensuring that the public obtains the best insights of experts in economics while avoiding pitfalls such as expert bias.
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From Cardinal to Ordinal Utility Theory: Darwin and Differential Capacity for Happiness
Sandra J. Peart,David M. Levy +1 more
TL;DR: Robbins [19321 1935: 136-140] and Peart-Levy as discussed by the authors argued that the transition from cardinal to ordinal utility can be traced to the shift from egalitarianism to hierarchy.
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Malthus and Utilitarianism with Special Reference to the Essay on Population
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that reliance on the principle of utility was confined to Bentham and his immediate circle and demonstrate the justice of the Robbins perspective with specific reference to the population issue.
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Charles Kingsley and the Theological Interpretation of Natural Selection
David M. Levy,Sandra J. Peart +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the economists' classification scheme, whereby all humans were presumed natural kinds, to be equally competent for economic and political decision making, with the post-Darwinian classification scheme that developed.