Many people have likely heard the name “Roland Barthes” (1915 – 1980), even if they are not familiar with his work. In the fields of literary criticism and civilization theory, Barthes was one of the most radical personifications of structuralism, which may be described as a &ldquo...

Many academic disciplines are collections of attempts to understand facts as accurately as possible. In sociology, the diverse aspects of society comprise the object of these endeavors. This statement leads to a two-part question: How is it done, and for what purpose?   The first part, &ldquo...

This book is a compilation of records of lectures on “capital markets and public policy” delivered in 2015 to graduate students at this university’s Graduate School of Public Policy and School of Law. This lecture series is delivered every year, with themes chosen from trending leg...