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

In 'The Vanity of the Philosophers,' David Levy and Sandra Peart reconsider "post-classical" economics from the vantage point of Adam Smith's "analytical" egalitarianism. Analytical egalitarianism is assumed, not proved; and Levy and Peart'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