Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I have just posted to SSRN a revised and corrected version of my forthcoming chapter “Breaking Bad Promises” — to be published in Joshua Heter & Brett Coppenger, editors, Better Call Saul and Philosophy (Open Universe), which is now in … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my multi-part series on “Coase and the Constitution” to let everyone know that I have posted to SSRN a revised version of my latest paper, which is titled “The Leibniz Conspiracy” and which will be published in … Continue reading →

Trent J. MacDonald, a research fellow at RMIT University, cites “Coase and the Constitution” on page 86 of The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit (Elgar, 2019), a beautiful book that “explores the theoretical possibility of ‘unbundling’ government functions and decentralising … Continue reading →

Christian B. Sundquist, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, cites “Coase and the Constitution” as part of his discussion of “competitive federalism” in his 2017 law review article “Positive Education Federalism.” To the point, Professor Sundquist writes (p. … Continue reading →

My second-most cited law review article, “Coase and the Constitution” (Guerra-Pujol, 2011), one of six scholarly papers I have written inspired by the ideas of the late Ronald Coase, presents a Coasean or property-rights method for resolving disputes over federalism. … Continue reading →

I began this series of blog posts one week ago (Jan. 20) by listing 11 serious researchers who have cited or otherwise mentioned my 2013 law review article “Gödel’s Loophole” — to keep my list manageable, I included only scholarly … Continue reading →

I picked up a copy of Stephen Budiansky‘s new biography of Kurt Gödel — Journey to the Edge of Reason, W. W. Norton (2021) — by chance at a book store in Winter Park, Florida in June of 2021, and … Continue reading →

Ben Abramowitz, Ehud Shapiro, and Nimrod Talmon cite “Gödel’s Loophole” in their excellent 2020 research article “How to Amend a Constitution? Model, Axioms, and Supermajority Rules” (via arXiv). Their formal paper is mathematical in nature, but here are the first … Continue reading →

Anuj Das Gupta, the Chief Research Officer of Stratumn SAS in Paris, France, cites “Gödel’s Loophole” in his excellent essay “Looking for the Soul in Satoshi’s Work” (Das Gupta, 2019), which provides a general overview of blockchain technology. Toward the … Continue reading →

Two foreign-language works cite my 2013 paper “Gödel’s Loophole”: one in Italian (Bianchi, 2020, available here); the other in Polish (Kubas, 2017, here). Let’s begin with Sergio Bianchi, a professor of financial mathematics at the University of Rome (“La Sapienza”), … Continue reading →