Entries from 2016-09-01 to 1 month

Success and Luck - Thinking about the cause of growing inequality

Though Thomas Piketty (2014), in his book “Capital in the twenty-first century”, pointed out the growing inequality in the process of economic growth, it is often criticized as not having theoretical support. Why does inequality grow? Kahn…

Stability: a child of modernity?

When I was really small, I asked my mom “why don’t we put a huge nail to the pacific plate to prevent earthquakes from happening?” My mom answered, “even if we can, it brings about worse disaster because accumulated energy will be released…

Research as a way of life

The word research is obviously a combination of the prefix "re" and the verb "search". In the course of our daily lives, we come across events, go through experiences and feel diverse emotions. But we hardly look back on those and reflect …