Mr Davidson, an economist who edits the Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, is Keynes's most faithful academic disciple.

ECONOMIST: John Maynard Keynes

The 56-year-old academic was the only contender for the post, which he will hold for three months before another election is held.

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As an academic discipline, he says, education has been heavily influenced by post-modernism the school of philosophy in which all meaning is regarded as subjective and all truth as relative.

ECONOMIST: The science of education

Researchers at academic medical centers who study the disease say that so-called chronic Lyme, or post-Lyme, is very rare, hard to detect and not treatable with any further doses of antibiotics.

FORBES: Lyme Inc.

Releasing NSSE, CLA, and post-graduate success data would be a good first step toward more transparency and would allow the producers of academic quality rankings to better serve both the consumers of and investors in colleges and universities.

FORBES: Why We Need College Rankings

Our research showed that had there been no uncertainty about the future of the school, had pre and post-school care been available in the village and had the school been reverted back to P1 to P7 this academic year, the roll would have been 26, not seven.

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