The history of literary study is primarily remembered as a narrative of conflicting ideas. Critical movements clash, then establish a succession: New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, New Historicism. Although scholars have complicated this simple history-of-ideas story in recent decades with an emphasis on social and institutional struggle, generational conflict remains a central frame...

This paper presents a simple model of human capital, ideas, and economic growth that integrates contributions from several different strands of the growth literature. The model generates a regression specification that is very similar to that employed by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992), but the economics underlying the specification is very different. In particular, the model emphasizes the impor...

BACKGROUND The united allergic airway is a theory that connects allergic rhinitis (AR), chronic rhinosinusitis, and asthma, in which seemingly disparate diseases, instead of being thought of separately, are instead viewed as arising from a common atopic entity. OBJECTIVE This article describes patients with such diseases; explores ideas suggesting a unified pathogenesis; elucidates the variou...