Wonder drugs and cure-alls filled books by a whole class of semi-literate "professors of secrets" (professori dei segreti) who eked out more or less glamorous livelihoods by selling emetics and purges.
"I mean literally literate".
And they are immune from common defects in economic writing: they reach useful conclusions and they are literate.Rebecca Blank is a professor at Northwestern University.
The chef himself carries it to the table and introduces it with an engaging and literate mini-lecture (Fromage 101; Professor Harary).
"Research has shown that women, even professional women with good jobs and successful careers, tend to be less financially literate than men," one economics professor at Darthmouth college told The New York Times in 2010.
"He was literate, knowledgeable and passionate," said Lynn Garafola, a professor of dance at Barnard College.
But we are not in raw frontier America anymore, Professor Wagner said, and the literate, educated and plugged-in electorate of today fully expects to make its voice heard.
"Research has shown that women, even professional women with good jobs and successful careers, tend to be less financially literate than men," said Annamaria Lusardi, an economics professor at Dartmouth College who has studied the issue.
One result was that some blind and mentally retarded people were chosen to preside over vote-counting, and in other cases barely literate peasants were assigned to head precincts while university professors were sidelined.
Judge Posner even belittles the trial judge's writing, like a puzzled college professor might treat many of our barely literate Chicago public high school students.
The 43 frugal essays that make up this volume, translated from the French by Alice Kaplan, a professor of romance languages at Duke University, are literate, light and lighthearted.
