Historians - contrary to economists, sociologists, jurists, novelists and others - are primarily trained to ascertain facts. They are less prone than any other class of social scientists or writers to mix fact and fiction, true thinking and wishful thinking, reality and ideology.
This might well be the main reason why, among modern liberal authors, my favoured ones, such as Lord Acton, Thomas Macaulay, Alexandre Herculano, Tocqueville, Paul Johnson, Edmund Burke, are predominantly historians rather than economists, such as Adam Smith, Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rothbard or people belonging to other fields of the intellectual profession.
This might well be the main reason why, among modern liberal authors, my favoured ones, such as Lord Acton, Thomas Macaulay, Alexandre Herculano, Tocqueville, Paul Johnson, Edmund Burke, are predominantly historians rather than economists, such as Adam Smith, Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rothbard or people belonging to other fields of the intellectual profession.
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