Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

FYI, the following books are available online for free: 1. Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Deborah G. Mayo. (This book is available online for free from August 1-31 … Continue reading →

I returned from Colombia last week and am now getting ready to visit Jamaica. In the meantime, here are a few additional photos from Bogota, one of my top-ten favorite cities in the world:

Via the popular Marginal Revolution blog, my colleague and friend Alex Tabarrok recently brought to my attention this prize-winning essay, which is provocatively titled “Drone Airspace: A New Global Asset Class“. The essay was written by Brent Skorup (pictured below), … Continue reading →

Via Brian Leiter, I recently discovered this excellent essay by Robert Cummins, a former philosophy professor who now writes detective novels. To the point, Dr Cummins’ essay presents a slam-dunk refutation of “reflective equilibrium,” a feeble, if not totally bogus, … Continue reading →

My colleague and friend Jimena Hurtado interviewed Tyler Cowen on 12 July in Bogota, Colombia. Although this informative interview is less than 10 minutes long, among other things Professor Cowen explains why he read The Wealth of Nations at age … Continue reading →

As I have gathered additional information about the many individuals in Adam Smith’s social circle during his 1766 sojourn in Paris, I have made significant revisions to Part 1 of my “Smith in the City” paper. I will most likely … Continue reading →

I first heard about the picture book “Bayesian Probability for Babies” last year, but the YouTube video below takes us on a page-by-page tour of the book. I am tempted to write a review!

I hate to be “that guy” but according to this 1985 Associated Press report, Jesus may have been born in late July!

Further proof the New York Times outshines even North Korean propaganda standards.