Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Ukraine for Cuba? Why not? I’m just thinking out loud here, but if the Russians were to launch an invasion of Ukraine (even a “minor” one), then the United States should invoke the Monroe Doctrine (look it up!) and invade … Continue reading →

During the Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at FIU this past week, I discovered the work of Garrincha, which is the pen name of Gustavo Rodriguez, a Cuban-born artist who now resides in the USA. Both of his … Continue reading →

where c is the universal constant for the speed of light. In words, the speed of light traveling through a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second, or exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (hat tip: @pickover).

Via Kottke: “artist and type designer Marie Boulanger selected 26 postage stamps from around the world with letters on them (C for Cuba, F for France, K for Kenya, etc.) and 10 stamps with the numerals 0-9 on them.” Nine … Continue reading →

Check out this collage of reward offers and then try to guess which of them are legally enforceable.

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 →