Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

(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!

Inspired by the ideas of Robin Hanson (see, by way of example, the video below on prediction markets), I have proposed the creation of a “truth market” in order to counteract the spread of false information on the Internet, and … Continue reading →

In my previous post I described how a “truth market” could be used to counteract the spread of false information on the Internet. To the point, my proposed truth market would operate like a betting market but would remain open … Continue reading →