Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The problem with historical analysis

"History is always a negotiation between the present and our reconstruction of the past, between the evidence and our interpretations of the evidence, a struggle between contending plausible stories offered by different narrators whose own histories, perspectives, and agendas color their accounts. " - Bruce Caldwell in Hayek's Challenge

As we use history in our analysis, we must constantly remind ourselves that history is itself a construct of our perception.

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