Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Did you know that Elon Musk’s “DOGE” project — the misnamed Department of Government Efficiency — ended up costing the government four times more money that it saved? My favorite talk, by far, at this year’s joint meeting of the … Continue reading →

I will be presenting two co-authored works on Adam Smith today (28 May) and tomorrow Friday (29 May) at the first-ever joint meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society, which … Continue reading →

Greetings from Nice, France! This afternoon (Wednesday, 27 May), I will be joining an academic panel on “Law, Organizations, and Institutions“, where I will be presenting my paper “Coase’s fable” and commenting on a paper by Edward Nik-Khah (Roanoke College): … Continue reading →

Today (Tuesday, 26 May), I will be attending three talks on F. A. Hayek at seize heures (16:00) Nice time: Hayek on economic development by Bruce Caldwell (Duke); Hayek at Freiburg: drifting away from ordoliberalism by Hansjörg Klausinger (WU Vienna); … Continue reading →

How can we differentiate AI-music or AI-poetry or AI-whatever from human-made songs, poems, etc.? On this note, I have been debating with myself whether to share this mellow music, which might be AI-generated (see here, for example) and which popped … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in a recent post (see here), I will be in the coastal city of Nice in the south of France until the end of May. In the meantime, I want to shout out my fellow blogger and … Continue reading →

(Translation: Saturday song: The life we live) As of last week, this song by the Paris-born hip hop artist Ninho (William Nzobazola) has had the longest run (311 weeks!!) on France’s official SNEP (Syndicat National de l’Édition Phonographique) singles chart. … Continue reading →

Just a heads up that I will be blogging less frequently these next few days as I will be travelling this weekend to attend the first-ever joint meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and … Continue reading →

Following up on my previous post, I want to share three timeless ideas that I learned from Book 1 of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations as well as three open questions that I have for my fellow Smith scholars:

Today (20 de mayo) is Cuban Independence Day (Día de la Independencia), the historic date in 1902 when the Republic of Cuba was officially established, marking the end of Spanish colonial rule and the transition out of U.S. military occupation … Continue reading →