The Vanity of the Economist: A Comment on Peart and Levy's The “Vanity of the Philosopher”

Kevin Hoover ()

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, vol. 67, issue 3, 445-453

Abstract: Abstract. In the Vanity of the Philosopher, Sandra Peart and David Levy reconsider “postclassical” economics from the vantage point of Adam Smith's “analytical” egalitarianism. Analytical egalitarianism is assumed, not proved; and Peart and Levy's criticisms of many 19th‐ and early 20th‐century economists, as well as eugenics in general, depend on equivocating between analytical and substantive egalitarianism. They fail to provide a non–question‐begging critique of eugenics.

Date: 2008
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