Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

(Walter Bagehot and Adam Smith, part 4) I concluded my previous post by asking, How did an obscure bookworm like Adam Smith become a leading light of the Scottish Enlightenment? According to Walter Bagehot (see especially paragraphs 9 through 12 … Continue reading →

(Walter Bagehot and Adam Smith, part 3) Thus far, I have reviewed the first five paragraphs of Walter Bagehot’s “Adam Smith as a Person” (see here and here). The next few paragraphs of Bagehot’s beautiful essay describe the circumstances surrounding … Continue reading →

(Walter Bagehot and Adam Smith, part 2) My previous post highlighted some of the main themes in Walter Bagehot’s beautiful essay “Adam Smith as a Person”. Today, I will pick up where I left off, beginning with the fourth paragraph, … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently discovered (via the late David Winch) Walter Bagehot’s 1876 essay “Adam Smith as a Person”. Today, I will review the first three paragraphs of this beautiful essay, where Bagehot makes the … Continue reading →

What is the best way to describe or visualize the law? As I mentioned in a previous blog post, it was the legal historian F. W. Maitland (1898, p. 13) who first compared law to a “seamless web” (see here). … Continue reading →

That is the title of this excellent essay published in 1876, the first page of which is pictured below, by the great English essayist Walter Bagehot. (I serendipitously stumbled upon this work via the late David Winch.) Although this text … Continue reading →

The greatest of all time? Yes, as a lifelong baseball fan, Shohei Ohtani has my vote!