Does a Famous Economist Deserve Special Standards? A Critical Note on Adam Smith Scholarship

Abstract

Matters are not very much improved when we come to the historian who qualifies all this [oversimplification of Luther] by some such phrase as that “Luther, however, was of an essentially medieval cast of mind;” for this parenthetical homage to research is precisely the vice and the delusion of the whig historian. Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History