Half of the prize goes to an economic historian, Professor Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University, whose research has focused on the centuries leading up to the industrial revolution. Until the second ...

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The long failure of German theology to reject the existential-dialectical notion that the historical aspects of the Christian revelation are dispensable gave to Continental dogmatics something of the ...

Women who are hired in jurisdictions that ban employers from asking about pay history earn “significantly more” than those hired elsewhere, a sign that pay history bans are effective at reducing the ...

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Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look like in practice? How does it differ from more traditional approaches? At ...