Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I heard this lyrical homage to my home State at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. (I was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended college at UCSB. #GauchoForLife!) Below is the “super mega mix” version! Update: Although I love … Continue reading →

“Joint stock companies, established by Royal Charter or by Act of Parliament, differ in several respects, not only from regulated companies, but from private copartneries.” (Smith 1784, p. 58) Thus far (see here and here), we have surveyed the first … Continue reading →

Adam Smith surveys overseas trading companies in the last part of his 1784 pamphlet (Part #13). I went over the first five paragraphs of this part of Smith’s 1784 pamphlet in my previous post. The rest of Smith’s pamphlet is … Continue reading →

Nota bene: I discuss Adam Smith’s first “dire warning” here. As promised (see here and here), I will now turn to the last part of Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet (Part #13, pp. 47-79), Additions and Corrections to the First and … Continue reading →

Earlier this month (6-8 July), I had surveyed Part #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet, Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith … Continue reading →

Shout out to my favorite L.A. bookstore, Lost Books (the entrance of which is pictured below), where I found a veritable treasure trove of erudite tomes — listed below in alphabetical order (by author): Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the … Continue reading →

Below are links to some free mathematics textbooks/lecture notes: (hat tips: @pickover, @gemchange_ltd, @LunesDes, and @ParamSiddh) Donna Kirk, Contemporary Mathematics (2026) MIT Sloan Business Club, Quant Bible (not dated) W. W. Sawyer, A Path to Modern Mathematics (1966) C. H. … Continue reading →

Bonus link: See also my 2015 paper “Finding Santiago“, where I trace the biographical origins of the legendary protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s timeless novella The Old Man and the Sea.

Are prediction markets (PMs) immoral or dangerous? What about retrodiction markets? What would Adam Smith or F. A. Hayek say? In alphabetical order (by author), below are some anti-PM links: Saahil Desai, Polymarket is going to get someone killed, The … Continue reading →