Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

All great college courses are based on thought-provoking questions. This syllabus asks the most important question of all. (Source: University of Florida.)

Via Kottke: “The Simpsons Library Instagram account has been documenting all of the books, magazines, and other printed matter that has appeared on the long-running sitcom.”

That is the title of my research poster on the law and ethics of Chegg, which I will be presenting at the Florida Statewide Symposium on Best Practices in Undergraduate Research this weekend. (This year, the symposium will take place … Continue reading →

Thanks to the careful work of Sarah Skwire, especially her beautiful draft paper “As If: Clueless about the Invisible Hand”, we have seen how people often add the words “as if” to Adam Smith’s original formulation of the invisible hand … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I took the liberty of cutting-and-pasting the introduction of Sarah Skwire’s beautiful draft paper “As If: Clueless About the Invisible Hand.” In brief, Adam Smith’s invisible hand metaphor is probably the most well-known and popular idea … Continue reading →

Moving on, the third of my three favorite talks at this year’s International Adam Smith Society (IASS) meeting was Sarah Skwire’s Saturday morning presentation (10/16/21) titled “As If: Clueless About the Invisible Hand“; in fact, I loved Dr Skwire’s beautiful … Continue reading →

“A recent work of text mining of Smith’s works … shows that ‘silver’ is the most relevant word in the Wealth of Nations (followed by expense, tax, profit, rent, corn, colonies).” — Paganelli (draft paper) As the quote above indicates, … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in a previous post, Toshiaki Ota’s presentation on “The roles of judges in Adam Smith’s jurisprudence” was one of my favorite works at this year’s meeting of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS). In summary, Professor Ota … Continue reading →