Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We presented the basic mechanics of Bayesian voting in one of our previous posts and showed how this simple and intuitive method of voting combines the best of both worlds: the ability of voters to express the intensity of their preferences … Continue reading →

I interrupt my series of blog posts on Bayesian voting to share this video clip with my loyal followers. It’s a video I shot on my phone of Tim Tebow’s first-ever Spring Training home run …

Now that we have described how quadratic voting works (see my blog post dated 23 Feb. 2020) and have presented several salient objections to this complicated method of voting (see my previous blog post), in this post I shall present … Continue reading →

I explained how quadratic voting works in my previous post, where I presented a simple quadratic voting procedure in which voters are allocated an equal number of “vote credits” before going to the polls. Yet, whenever we are evaluating a … Continue reading →

Update (11/3): I develop these ideas more fully in my paper “Weyl Versus Rasmey: A Bayesian Voting Primer,” available here. We stipulated in our previous post how beliefs and preferences can come in degrees. I also mentioned how this simple … Continue reading →

I mentioned in my previous post that Frank Ramsey was one of the founding fathers of the subjective interpretation of probability, and I also noted how Ramsey’s approach forever changed my view of the world. Before Ramsey (BR), I used … Continue reading →

That is the subtitle of Cheryl Misak’s intellectual biography of the great British polymath Frank Ramsey, who was born on this day (22 February 1903) twelve decades ago. Among many other things, Ramsey was one of the founders of the … Continue reading →

Check out this beautiful 26-page paper on “Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research” by Michael Barany and Donald MacKenzie. According to one of the authors of the chalk paper (Barany), one of the advantages of blackboards is that they … Continue reading →

Nine years ago (2011), Chief Justice John Roberts (pictured below, left) presented this devastating critique of legal scholarship. Among other things, the Chief made this wisecrack: “Pick up a copy of any law review that you see, and the first … Continue reading →

That is the title of my most recent contribution to the literature on judicial voting, a literature that goes back to Frank Easterbrook’s excellent paper “Ways of criticizing the court,” which was published in The Harvard Law Review in 1982. … Continue reading →