Joseph Hiam Levy (1838 – 1913) was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He was a member of the London Dialectical Society in the session 1867/8 and gave his address as: "J. H. Levy, Esq., Education Department, Privy Council Office, Downing St, S.W."[1] He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association.
Levy also wrote an introduction to the English translation of Yves Guyot's 1893 work, The Tyranny of Socialism.
Levy was an anti-vaccinationist as he believed it violated personal rights. He described compulsory vaccination as a "gross and cruel invasion of personal liberty".[2] Levy's anti-vaccination book, The Bird that Laid the Vaccination Egg, published in 1892 was heavily criticized in medical journals as non-scientific.[3][4]
Publications
A Symposium on Value. Edited by J. H. Levy, and consisting of papers by E. B. Bax, W. Donisthorpe 1895
The Bird that Laid the Vaccination Egg: An Excursus on Scientific Authority. 1892