Catégories
Where new products and processes come from: R&D, technology adoption, patents as strategy, and why incumbents so reliably miss the next thing.
The chemistry of non-carbon compounds, including metals, minerals, and coordination complexes.
The movement of ideas over time, and the arguments, texts and thinkers that carried them.
Patents, copyright, trademarks and trade secrets: the rights that attach to what someone made rather than to a thing they hold.
The diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of disease in adults. It is the umbrella most medical specialties sit under.
The firm that operates across borders: entry modes, multinational structure, and what distance between institutions and cultures actually costs.
Trade and finance across borders: comparative advantage, tariffs, exchange rates and capital flows.
The law between states: treaties, custom, the use of force, and the courts and tribunals that try to enforce any of it without a world government behind them.
Politics between states and across borders: war and peace, trade, alliances, international institutions and the norms that bind or fail to bind them.
The scholarship on sharia and fiqh: the sources, the schools of interpretation, and how the tradition is codified and argued over in modern states.
What law is, and what makes it binding: the nature of a legal system, its relation to morality, and how judges reason from rules to results.
How to encode what a system knows so that it can draw conclusions from it: ontologies, description logics, and automated inference.
Work as a market: wages, employment, human capital, discrimination, and what unions and minimum wages do to any of them.
The employment relationship as law sees it: contracts of work, collective bargaining, dismissal and the floor of rights below which no bargain may go.
How children get a first language: the path from babbling to grammar, and what its regularity implies about the capacity behind it.
How a language is taught and learned in a classroom: syllabus and method, and what the acquisition research says about whether any of them work.
The language of Rome and, for centuries after it, of European scholarship: its grammar, its literature, and its descent into the Romance languages.
The study of law: the rules a society enforces, the institutions that make and apply them, and the reasoning that holds the whole thing together. The scholarship, not the practice of lawyering.
Legal rules read as incentives: what a liability regime or a property right does to behaviour, and which rule leaves a society better off.
Where the two systems of rules meet: religious freedom and its limits, the legal standing of religious bodies, and states that establish a church or refuse to.