History of Science: Whiggism Gone Wild

History of Science: Whiggism Gone Wild
This transcript is the second in a series of Murray Rothbard lectures on the history of thought. Here he explains what is wrong with the “great man” model of the history of science. Rothbard argues for his own method of sorting the wheat from the chaff in the history of ideas.

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