The following pages are presented to the public, in compliance with a requisition of the Statute relative to the Professorship of...
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Lewis actor Kevin Whately discovered a successful singer, a director of the Bank of England and a slave trader in his family history when he appeared on Who Do...
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Walter Bagehot, a British journalist and early editor of “The Economist,” specialized in institutional economic issues.
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No, no, and no—economics is a lot of fun, and while we do sometimes make depressing predictions and are constantly saying “on the other hand...
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In an eight-page document, Jane Austen collected her friends' and family's opinions of her third and fourth novels, Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815).
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In this essay, we examine Carlyle's essay in greater detail, showing exactly how far he was willing to go in denying universal brotherhood.
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The overwhelming majority of gambling profits come from people losing money at slot machines, gaming tables and horse race betting.
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Four months ago when we presented some of our research on the Dismal Science, we heard two criticisms. Two months ago at a conference where we presented...
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The Irish government designated 17 May 2009 as the first National Famine Memorial Day. On that day, Irish people throughout the world...
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Yup, we rounded up some of the best quotes about the winter holiday Kwanzaa to get you in the celebratory mood.
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