Writes Robert Groezinger:
3:21 pm on March 6, 2011“Google’s latest gizmo, Google labs,” writes Niall Ferguson in the Telegraph, “allows you to search the huge number of books Google has scanned to date to see how frequently a word occurs in them.”
It does so only up the the year 2000, though. I checked “Libertarianism” and compared it with “Neoconservatism.” Hurrah!
This is unfortunate, if to be expected: Ludwig von Mises vs. Keynes. Looking at LvM alone, however, is encouraging.