"The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the work of Alan S. Milward" Barcelona Graduate School in Economics Working Paper no. 586
Journal: WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster)
Year: 2011

Alan S. Milward was an economic historian who developed an implicit theory of historical change. His interpretation which was neither liberal nor Marxist posited that social, political, and economic change, for it to be sustainable, had to be a gradual process rather than one resulting from a sudden, cataclysmic revolutionary event occurring in one sector of the economy or society. Benign change depended much less on natural resource endowment or technological developments than on the ability of