Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Who’s afraid of conspiracy theories?
Via Marginal Revolution, the Amazing Tyler Cowen recently blogged about this new paper by Aleksandra Urmana, et al. To the point, the paper studies search results across five search engines — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo!, and Yandex –in order to … Continue reading
End of year review: 2021
In addition to my regular teaching duties, I worked on the following projects this year: Published works Adam Smith in Love in Econ Journal Watch. Betting on Conspiracies in the Journal of Brief of Ideas. Teaching Tiger King in the … Continue reading
Springsteen Sunday
Happy Holidays! Although I am all about Las Posadas, Nochebuena, and Puerto Rican parrandas this time of year, I have to confess that I also love Bruce Springsteen’s rock-and-roll homage to Santa. (Hat tip to Kara Jayne for the link … Continue reading
What are they hiding? (JFK Assassination Records Edition)
The National Archives released another batch of JFK assassination records — 1,491 documents in all — earlier this week (December 15), but this batch of evidence still represents less than 10 percent of the more than 15,000 documents that the … Continue reading
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Thirteenth Amendment
That is the title of my latest project. I will post a complete draft on SSRN soon, but in the meantime, here is the abstract: My paper explores the first of the Reconstruction Amendments — the Thirteenth Amendment of 1865 … Continue reading
In praise of Coase (again)
I will conclude my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses with a paean to Ronald Coase’s classic 1959 paper “The Federal Communications Commission” on the FCC’s allocation of TV and radio frequencies. In brief, to this … Continue reading
Auctions for Outer Space
Note: Below is part four of my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA. Thus far, we have identified a novel solution to the problem of satellite congestion in outer space: the FAA or … Continue reading
Launch Auctions and the Outer Space Treaty
Note: Below is part three of my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA. Today, I write to propose legislation authorizing the FAA — or better yet, NASA — to allocate launch licenses using … Continue reading
The tragedy of the outer space commons
Note: As I mentioned in my previous post, I will resume my review of Nozick next week; in the meantime, below is part two of my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA. Are … Continue reading
The allocation of launch licenses
Notes: I will resume my review of Nozick next week; in the meantime, this new series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA is just a short preview of my next work-in-progress. Currently, any private … Continue reading

