The Vanity of the Economist: A Comment on Peart and Levy's The “Vanity of the Philosopher”*
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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 19and early 20-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
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