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In political studies, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus on presidential achievements, leadership qualities ...
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu ( Turkish: [daˈɾon aˈdʒemoːɫu]; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. [ 1] He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and was ...
Roger Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt in 2019. Born. 1940 (age 83–84) United States. Occupation (s) Writer and teacher. Roger Rosenblatt (born 1940) is an American memoirist, essayist, and novelist. [1] He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour.
Online archive. The Harvard Review of Philosophy is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy edited by a student collective at Harvard University. [1] Established in 1991, [2] it publishes articles, reviews, and interviews with living philosophers. The journal is published annually by the Philosophy Documentation Center.
The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. [ 1][ 2] Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven ...
Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet who is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. [1] The New York Times has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation". [2] [3] Burt grew up around Washington, D.C.
Six Memos for the Next Millennium ( Italian: Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio) is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, though Calvino died before delivering them. The lectures were written in Italian but were to be given in English in the fall of ...
John Kenneth Galbraith. John Kenneth Galbraith[ a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from ...