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Discontent in the historical profession

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Jerry Z. Muller is professor of history at the Catholic University of America, author of The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism (Princeton, 1987), Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society (Prineton, 1995), and editor of Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present (Princeton, 1997).

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Muller, J.Z. Discontent in the historical profession. Soc 36, 12–18 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-999-1020-x

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