THE WHIG INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY

The Whig interpretation of history

In economics, as in other disciplines, one often comes across the term "Whig" or its derivatives.One will find, for example, a particular account being branded as whiggish.Butterfield, who was a historian, introduced the idea of a Whig merits battery charger interpretation of history in 1931.Since then the term has usually been used to classify an

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