Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

The headline of a front-page story in last Friday’s New York Times (7 Feb. 2020) states that an estimated $1.6 billion in Hurricane Maria insurance claims remain unresolved. This sounds like a serious crisis of epic proportions, one requiring more … Continue reading →

Review (part 2 of 2) of Matthew W. Slaboch, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (U Penn Press, 2018). In my previous post, I mentioned that the concept of progress might have a cultural or … Continue reading →

Review (part 1 of 2) of Matthew W. Slaboch, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (U Penn Press, 2018). As soon as I heard about Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen’s recent call for a new … Continue reading →

Via Wikipedia (footnotes omitted): “Double chess is a chess variant invented by Julian S. Grant Hayward in 1916. The game is played on a 12×16 chessboard with each player in control of two complete armies placed side-by-side. The rules were … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Via POLITICO: Each circle represents the difference in votes between the winner and the runner-up in each one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Larger circles indicate a larger gap between the first- and second-place candidates. Update (2/6): these…

According to this gated paper by Cher Li, an assistant professor of economics at Colorado State University, and Basit Zafar, a professor of economics at Arizona State University, “male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive … Continue reading →

Via POLITICO: Each circle represents the difference in votes between the winner and the runner-up in each one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Larger circles indicate a larger gap between the first- and second-place candidates.

Candidate Votes Percent Bernie Sanders 0 0.00% Other 0 0.00% Michael Bennet 0 0.00% Tulsi Gabbard 0 0.00% John K Delaney 0 0.00% Amy Klobuchar 0 0.00% Elizabeth Warren 0 0.00% Joe Biden 0 0.00% Pete Buttigieg 0 0.00% Andrew … Continue reading →