Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Against tiered contracts in Academia?
You may have heard that the United Auto Workers (UAW), one of the largest labor unions in North America, is now on strike (see here or here, for example). What, however, you may not know is that among the union’s … Continue reading
Was the *Free Britney* movement a mistake?
That is the subject of the podcast episode below. (For my part, it sure looks that way to me!) File under: “Bayesian updating” (look it up!).
Afro-Cuban Funky Grooves with Cami Layé Okún
Wow! This 45-minute music-mix magically popped up into my YouTube homepage (thank you evil Google algorithms), and I loved every second of it!
Friday fiction: *Detective Work*
That is the title of this suspenseful short story by my fellow writer and friend Luanne Castle. Her one-paragraph story, which was published in the Bright Flash Literary Review, belongs to a new literary genre known as “micro-fiction” or “flash … Continue reading
*Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years*
That is the title of this report by Stephanie Pappas for Scientific American. (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.) In brief, the word “unless” in Netwon’s First Law (see, for example, the infographic below) should really read “except insofar”; otherwise, the first … Continue reading
What is *capitalism*?
My colleague and friend Peter J. Boettke explores this question in his survey essay for The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2022), pp. 267-275, which is available here (for free!) via SSRN. Among other things, Professor Boettke explains … Continue reading
FYI: Adam Smith scholars to meet in Tokyo in 2024
For my part, I have been conducting some new research on two aspects of Adam Smith’s biography (his decision to abandon his studies at Balliol College in the summer of 1746 and his final departure from Paris in the fall … Continue reading

