solon

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Now Keynes had discovered precedent for his ideas — thousands of years’ worth, from Hammurabi in ancient Babylon to Solon of Athens.

From Slate

The president is steadying the ship of state in turbulent waters — a depressed economy, raging inflation, a worldwide pandemic and a colicky Congress, where the Democratic solon from West Virginia trick-or-treats as a Republican.

From Washington Post

Phil Gramm, a former U.S. senator, and Mike Solon, president at US Policy Strategies, writing in the Wall Street Journal, note that in feudalism’s “communal world,” workers had obligations to the church, the local aristocracy, the guild and the village: These “stakeholders” leeched away portions of what workers produced.

From Washington Post

Syed Jawed Akhtar-Zaidi was a popular pain doctor in Solon, Ohio, who Mallinckrodt ranked as one of their top prospects.

From Washington Post

The company has in recent months hired the BBC presenter Emma Barnett as an interviewer for its Quicktake series; Philip Aldrick, a former Times of London economics editor; Olivia Solon, a tech investigations reporter from NBC News; and Alex Wickham, the editor of Politico’s London Playbook newsletter.

From New York Times