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Why a Business History?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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History — and this includes economic history — has thrived on controversy. Is it a science? Is it a scientific method? Is it a mere jumble of uncoördinated facts deadly in a textbook and amusing to a trained antiquarian? Or perhaps its utility is in substantiating our religions like “progress” and the Hegelian “march of reason”?

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Business History Review , Volume 4 , Issue 6 , November 1930 , pp. 5 - 6
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1930

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