Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

With Saint Valentine’s Day around the corner — and Black History Month in full swing — today I want to take us back to 1978 to share this music video of “Is this love“. FYI: Bob Marley was born in … Continue reading →

Via Kottke, the video below shows how the “warp jump” special effect in the Star Trek universe has changed over the years, beginning with Star Trek: The Movie in 1979. (In case you’re wondering, there were no warp-speed special effects … Continue reading →

Also, via Reddit, see here for maps of British, German, Japanese, and North American sportswear brands. File under: Big, Bad Nike versus the World.

I have blogged about Rosa Parks before (see here and here, for example), but I did not know that the actual city bus in which she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to … Continue reading →

During the past 12 years, I have authored or co-authored a number of scholarly works exploring various aspects of markets and property rights using a “Coasean” lens. In addition to my 2011 paper on “Coase and the Constitution“, for example, … Continue reading →

Check out this short paper on “Variables and parameters” by Douglas Altman and J. Martin Bland, who identify at least three different meanings of the statistical term “parameter” and attempt to distinguish parameters from variables as follows (note: the introductory … Continue reading →

Following up on my Garrincha post, another Cuban artist whose work was featured during the Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies last week was Manuel Almenares Estrada, a photographer who lives and works in Havana. (Here is a short … Continue reading →

It’s time to wrap up my series on “Coase and the Constitution“, which I had put on hold last week to attend to other matters. The top two citations to my work appear on the pages of the Columbia Law … Continue reading →

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 →