Robert Higgs writes:
Max Hartwell
was an outstanding economic historian and contributed greatly to the “Standard of Living Debate,” defending the view that the Industrial Revolution, far from having been a Marxist nightmare for the working class, was the means by which they were gradually lifted from the poverty that had been their lot from time immemorial.
Max was the classical liberal’s classical liberal—always level-headed, always recalling the pitfalls that await every species of single-mindedness. I eventually became more radical than he, but I never lost an ounce of respect for his opinions.
In fact, the interviewer Patrick O'Brien, whom I have the fondest memories of, was my tutor at St.Antony's College, Oxford.
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