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Nutter and Buchanan Did Not Turn Against Tuition Grants for Segregated Schools in 1965: A Comment on Fleury (2023) and Levy and Peart (2023)

Daniel Kuehn (The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA)

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Hazel Kyrk's: A Theory of Consumption 100 Years after Publication

ISBN: 978-1-80455-991-8, eISBN: 978-1-80455-990-1

Publication date: 9 February 2024

Abstract

Warren Nutter and James M. Buchanan did not revise “Universal Education” to turn against providing tuition grants to segregated schools in 1965. Their revised text contains no call to expel segregation academies from the tuition grant program and does not even express disapproval of the goals or the work of segregation academies. Recent claims to that effect by Fleury (2023) and Levy and Peart (2023) cannot be sustained by either textual or contextual evidence.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

I thank Andrew Farrant and Jean-Baptiste Fleury for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. I hope especially that I have adequately articulated Fleury’s perspective, even in the particular instances where we might continue to differ. I appreciate David Levy and Sandra Peart’s support for the publication of this comment. I also thank James Hershman and Nancy MacLean for their support and an extensive prior correspondence on this period of Virginia history that has informed this comment.

Citation

Kuehn, D. (2024), "Nutter and Buchanan Did Not Turn Against Tuition Grants for Segregated Schools in 1965: A Comment on Fleury (2023) and Levy and Peart (2023)", Fiorito, L., Scheall, S. and Suprinyak, C.E. (Ed.) Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Hazel Kyrk's: A Theory of Consumption 100 Years after Publication (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 41D), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542024000041D009

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