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In factual narrative, history tends to be written by the winners, who feed reports of victorious campaigns to their chroniclers. In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

--- Brian Boyd, ibid.

Once in a while, it's useful to replace the term "objective" with "factual narrative." R.Shiller has been doing a lot of it lately.