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Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
The poet and scholar A. E. Housman challenged such reactive applications in 1922, in the provocatively titled article "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". [8] On the other hand, taken as an axiom, the principle lectio difficilior produces an eclectic text, rather than one based on a history of manuscript transmission.
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McCloskey says that this presumes to know more than it can, and raised the prestige of the mathematical "modernist methodology" above other ways of performing economics. Her complaint against the modern profession, and against the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel winners above, has provoked a strong defense ...
It was at Cambridge that Powell fell under the influence of the poet A. E. Housman, [35] then Professor of Latin at the university. At Cambridge, Powell won a number of prizes, including the Percy Pemberton Prize, the Porson Prize , the Yeats Prize and the Lees Knowles, the Members' prize for Latin prose, the Browne Medal , the First Chancellor ...
The Cambridge capital controversy, sometimes called "the capital controversy" [1] or "the two Cambridges debate", [2] was a dispute between proponents of two differing theoretical and mathematical positions in economics that started in the 1950s and lasted well into the 1960s.
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World is a 2010 book by economist and social theorist Deirdre McCloskey that is the second of a three-book series laying out the thesis that a change in the rhetoric surrounding the value of business, innovation, and entrepreneurship was the main factor responsible for the takeoff of economic growth in Northwest Europe in the late ...
A.E. Housman from Seren; Notes on some contributors, including Keith Jebb This page was last edited on 4 February 2025, at 05:22 ...