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When Keynes died, in April 1946, The Times of London gave him the best farewell since Nelson after Trafalgar: “To find an economist of comparable influence one would have to go back to Adam Smith.” A few years later, Alvin Hansen, of Harvard University...

For achieving the improbable – former President Goodluck Jonathan for conceding defeat in an election in which he was a contestant – a first for Nigeria; Professor Attahiru Jega, for his courage, doggedness and fairness even in the face of threats to...

(This article was originally published at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Quantitative psychologist Lee Sechrest has passed away at the age of 86. Lee was a friend of the blog and we corresponded...

The Return of Bernard Lewis: Image: Bernard Lewis on French television in 1990. Frederic REGLAIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. MARTIN KRAMER | JUNE 1 2016 As the year 1976 opened, the Middle East hardly seemed poised for a great transformation. The...

Article Newman, John Henry (1801–1890), cardinal of the holy Roman church, was born in the city of London on 21 Feb. 1801. His father, John Newman, who is said to have been of a family of small landed proprietors in Cambridgeshire, was of Dutch extraction...