Monthly Archives: December 2021

Among other things, the holidays are a time when I finally get to catch up on my scholarly readings. Below, for example, is a listing of some of the sundry papers and books I am studying this season: “Gametek: the … Continue reading →

I still have one more piece of unfinished business before I resume my in-depth review of Robert Nozick’s magnum opus Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and that is “Grounding Legal Proof” — a paper on the “epistemology of evidence law” authored … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
With apologies to my colleague and friend Robin Hanson, that is the tentative title of my next project, which builds on my previous work “Betting on Conspiracies,” which is forthcoming in The Journal of Law…

Via Marginal Revolution, the Amazing Tyler Cowen recently blogged about this new paper by Aleksandra Urmana, et al. To the point, the paper studies search results across five search engines — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo!, and Yandex –in order to … Continue reading →

In addition to my regular teaching duties, I worked on the following projects this year: Published works Adam Smith in Love in Econ Journal Watch. Betting on Conspiracies in the Journal of Brief of Ideas. Teaching Tiger King in the … Continue reading →

Happy Holidays! Although I am all about Las Posadas, Nochebuena, and Puerto Rican parrandas this time of year, I have to confess that I also love Bruce Springsteen’s rock-and-roll homage to Santa. (Hat tip to Kara Jayne for the link … Continue reading →

The National Archives released another batch of JFK assassination records — 1,491 documents in all — earlier this week (December 15), but this batch of evidence still represents less than 10 percent of the more than 15,000 documents that the … Continue reading →

That is the title of my latest project. I will post a complete draft on SSRN soon, but in the meantime, here is the abstract: My paper explores the first of the Reconstruction Amendments — the Thirteenth Amendment of 1865 … Continue reading →

I will conclude my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses with a paean to Ronald Coase’s classic 1959 paper “The Federal Communications Commission” on the FCC’s allocation of TV and radio frequencies. In brief, to this … Continue reading →

Note: Below is part four of my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA. Thus far, we have identified a novel solution to the problem of satellite congestion in outer space: the FAA or … Continue reading →