This blog post examines how the new warfare, brought about by globalization and the rise of non-state actors, is shaking the framework of nation-state-based democracy and what kind of shift it demands. Modern democracy has developed within the political community of the nation-state, centered on nationalism, national identity, and the citizenship rights that accompany nationality. However...
This blog post examines the role of transaction costs in shaping firms’ decisions to buy from the market or produce internally, and specifically analyzes how these choices form firm boundaries and organizational structures. The methodology of neoclassical economics, which explains economic phenomena starting from the choices of rational economic agents seeking to maximize their...
This blog post examines how the tradition of Roman law commentary, originating in 12th-century Bologna, led to a new scholarly transformation. It traces the flow from the authority of the Digesten, changes in interpretive methods, to Leibniz’s critical approach. Serious study of the Corpus Juris Civilis began in the 12th century, centered in Bologna. At that time, this legal text was...
This blog post examines the trends of growth and inequality that shook the U.S. economy in the 20th century, providing an in-depth analysis of how changes in education, rather than technology, shaped the labor market and wage structure. The U.S. economy of the last century can be divided into several distinct periods. From the 1930s until the late 1970s, income inequality moderated...
This blog post explores the beauty effects created by high heels alongside the hidden health burdens they carry, prompting us to consider what choices we should make. Women and high heels are inseparable. For a long time, they have been considered an inseparable pair. High heels not only give women an elegant and sophisticated impression but also make their legs appear longer and...
This blog post examines the meaning of ancient Greek sculpture, which Hegel regarded as the consummation of artistic beauty, and explores the philosophical background of how the unity of content and form achieved this pinnacle of beauty. Hegel’s theory of art belongs to typical philosophical aesthetics, despite containing rich and sophisticated statements on specific works, because...
This blog post examines in detail how high sea temperatures and ocean currents in the West Antarctic region concentrate warm water beneath small ice shelves, accelerating melting, and what this phenomenon signifies for ice shelf changes across the entire Antarctic. The Antarctic continent holds an enormous amount of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by approximately 57 meters if it...
This blog post examines the criteria used under the Fair Trade Act to distinguish hard collusion from soft collusion, and why they require different levels of scrutiny regarding their restrictive effects on competition. This helps understand the core principles of market regulation. The ‘unfair joint conduct’ under the Republic of Korea’s Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act...
This blog post examines how modern historiography has reproduced Western-centricism through the concepts of linear progress and a historicist conception of time, while exploring the possibility of a new historical consciousness where diverse civilizations and heterogeneous temporalities coexist. Imperialism plundered not only the territories of colonies but also their cultures and minds...
This blog post examines how excessive submission to law undermines human freedom and autonomy, even amplifying guilt, focusing on Kant’s categorical imperative and Deleuze’s critique. Within the Western intellectual tradition, law has long been understood as secondary to the good, or merely a means to resemble the good. Law was seen as a mere semblance of the good, revealed...