Sympathy and its discontents: 'Greatest happiness' versus the 'general good'

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-478

  Peart, Sandra J ^a   Levy, David M ^b  

^a BALDWIN WALLACE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin; Edgeworth; Eugenics; Evolutionary biology; Greatest happiness principle; Sympathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444373708     PISSN: 09672567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0967256042000246502     Document Type: Review

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