DOI
10.1215/00182702-35-4-731
Abstract
Much of the prejudice one finds in the postclassical period of economics ought to be read against the background of classical economics, which was, we argue, deeply unprejudiced and egalitarian in nature. In this essay, we study an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debate about human equality. The immediate question at issue was whether the human race was one or many “races”; if the latter, one might take an additional step by distinguishing between so-called “superior” and “inferior” races. It is here, we suggest, that prejudice began to infect nineteenth-century “scientific” thought.
Document Type
Restricted Article: Campus only access
Publication Date
11-1-2003
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2003, Duke University Press.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-731
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Recommended Citation
David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart; “Who Are the Canters?” The Coalition of Evangelical-Economic Egalitarians. History of Political Economy 1 November 2003; 35 (4): 731–757. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-731
