in this paper, the writers try to compare two authors, the iranian leftist, bozorg alavi (1904-1997) and the polish joseph conrad (1857-1924). although these two writers have different attitudes to socialism and the question of revolution, both share romantic idealism and a tragic sense of personal and social life. moreover, they both are precursors of modernist novel in their countries, and sh...

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This work is based on the framework proposed by Conrad (1997) to determine the optimal timing of an investment or policy to slow global warming. While Conrad formulated the problem as a stopping rule option pricing model, we treat the policy decision by considering the total damage function that enables us to make some interesting extensions to the original formulation. We show that Conrad’s fr...

These are lecture notes that Tony Feng live-TEXed from a course given by Brian Conrad at Stanford in“winter” 2015, which Feng and Conrad edited afterwards. Two substitute lectures were delivered (by Akshay Venkatesh and Zhiwei Yun) when Conrad was out of town. This is a sequel to a previous course on the general structure of linear algebraic groups; some loose ends from that course (e.g., Cheva...