----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [I asked David Levy to respond to this query because of his familiarity with the texts. Here is his reply to me. RBE] The first edition in book form of *Hard Times* is "Inscribed to Thomas Carlyle." In all modern editions which I have seen -- two Penguins and the Norton -- this dedication is reprinted. Literary folks view Carlyle as a "progressive," so why not. *Hard Times* appeared in serial form in Dickens' magazine *Household Words* before it came out in book form and (if I remember correctly) the dedication did not appear until the book form. So actually there might be textual warrant for religating the fact to the collation of editions. I can offer several papers on this topic: *Hard Times* and the Moral Equivalence of Markets and Slavery How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Debating Racial Quacks ... this was just accepted by JHET Economic Texts as Apocrypha ... this will be out in the volume in honor of Sam Hollander John Ruskin: "Poet and Slayer of a Wide-Coiled Monstrocity" ... presented at the Eastern last month and at HES in July I can e-mail any or all of them from my account [log in to unmask] However there is a remarkable image which is necessary to make sense of the Ruskin paper. And I've not had it scanned yet. There is a book in the works "How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and Ur-Text of Racial Politics." David M. Levy ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]