Darwin's unpublished letter at the Bradlaugh–Besant trial: A question of divided expert judgment

Peart, Sandra J.; Levy, David M.

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2007.12.001

“…Here, perhaps what needs to be worked out is Mill's view of the changing incentives to restrain marriage under capitalism and socialism. Under socialism, as Malthus foretold, disapprobation and social pressure were the only means to restrain reckless marriage (Levy and Peart 2008d;Peart and Levy 2008b). What McCann sees as paternalism in Mill might instead be Mill's argument that a society with material incentives can avoid this fate.…”

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“…Kevin Hoover and Farrant are correct that we did not fully appreciate the depth of Lionel Robbins's AE. Here again our work with Rawls has been helpful Peart and Levy 2008a). Rawls reads Robbins as offering the best form of utilitarianism (Rawls [1971(Rawls [ ] 1999.…”

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Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism, and the March Towards Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences

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On the occasion of this symposium we have taken the opportunity to revisit what we have called analytical egalitarianism with the comments of our colleagues in mind. Before we began Vanity, we were intrigued by two discussions about types of agents. The early work in public choice by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (1962) held emphatically that agents in market transactions were no different from agents in political transactions. The socialist calculation debate illustrates the danger of supposing that planners could be counted on to act in the public interest (Levy and Peart 2008d). Folk wisdom in economics also suggests that economists are not exclusively truth-seeking agents. "Torture the data until it confesses" is one expression of this attitude attributed to Ronald Coase. Edward Leamer's "Let's Take the 'Con' Out of Econometrics" (1983) is perhaps the best known statement of this.What we've tried to do in Vanity is to recover a tradition. We offer two requirements for analytical egalitarianism (AE). First, differences among types of agents in an AE model are endogenous to the model. Second, the theorist who creates an AE model is the same type as the agents in the model. We prefer this characterization to the older "nature" and "nurture" terminology that Kevin Hoover suggests because our characterization explicitly takes the modeler into consideration.These conditions are in keeping with our reading of Adam Smith's practice. Philosophers and porters are very different types of people, but all differences are explained by the working out of the model that Smith describes. As a result of the division of labor, philosophers offer their insights in exchange for other goods. The question is how to *David Levy is at

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“…by their use in medical experiments). Amongst such dangerous schemes, Darwin even included John Stuart Mill's call for easily available contraception advice to prevent unwanted births (Peart and Levy 2008).…”

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“…There is still a great deal of historical work to be done to be able to dehomogenize Spencer, Wallace, and Darwin. Publishing the full text of Darwin's letter on contraception (Peart and Levy 2008b) might be a step in this direction.…”

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Thinking About Analytical Egalitarianism

Levy

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,

Peart

²

2008

American J Econ Sociol

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On the occasion of this symposium we have taken the opportunity to revisit what we have called analytical egalitarianism with the comments of our colleagues in mind. Before we began Vanity, we were intrigued by two discussions about types of agents. The early work in public choice by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (1962) held emphatically that agents in market transactions were no different from agents in political transactions. The socialist calculation debate illustrates the danger of supposing that planners could be counted on to act in the public interest (Levy and Peart 2008d). Folk wisdom in economics also suggests that economists are not exclusively truth-seeking agents. "Torture the data until it confesses" is one expression of this attitude attributed to Ronald Coase. Edward Leamer's "Let's Take the 'Con' Out of Econometrics" (1983) is perhaps the best known statement of this.What we've tried to do in Vanity is to recover a tradition. We offer two requirements for analytical egalitarianism (AE). First, differences among types of agents in an AE model are endogenous to the model. Second, the theorist who creates an AE model is the same type as the agents in the model. We prefer this characterization to the older "nature" and "nurture" terminology that Kevin Hoover suggests because our characterization explicitly takes the modeler into consideration.These conditions are in keeping with our reading of Adam Smith's practice. Philosophers and porters are very different types of people, but all differences are explained by the working out of the model that Smith describes. As a result of the division of labor, philosophers offer their insights in exchange for other goods. The question is how to *David Levy is at

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Darwin's unpublished letter at the Bradlaugh–Besant trial: A question of divided expert judgment

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