Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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Excerpted from an edited transcript of “Ideology and Theories of History,” the first in a series of six lectures, given in 1986, on the history of economic thought. The Whig theory of the history of science is very similar, of course, to the Whig theory of the history itself . The Whig theory of history of science was dominant until the 1960s. (It