Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I’m interrupting my self-imposed one-week exile from blogging to pose three questions to Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and “behavioral economics” at Duke University (You see, we finally got around to reading the revised and expanded edition of his … Continue reading →

Alas, we still have a long ways to go, as we’re only up to page 538. Also, please note: we will take the rest of May off and resume our blogging duties on Monday, June 3rd.

In our previous post we reframed copyright disputes in general–and the problem of literary fan art specifically–in economic or Coasean terms: under what conditions do copyright owners get to have veto rights over fan art, and by the same reciprocal … Continue reading →

In my previous post we saw how utterly unhelpful the fair use standard is–how trying to predict ahead of time whether a particular derivative work or piece of fan art constitutes “fair use” or not is almost like the inscrutable … Continue reading →

We are exploring the law and economics of “literary fan art,” i.e. creative works of art that reimagine someone’s else literary work product, such as the various visualizations of the characters and story in Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man and the … Continue reading →

In our previous post we featured a beautiful canvas clutch bag by Olivia Le-Tan (pictured below, right) patterned after a previous edition of Ernest Hemingway’s popular novella “The Old Man and the Sea.” Olivia Le-Tan made a limited number of these … Continue reading →

Check out the beautiful Olympia Le-Tan clutch bag pictured below. (Shout out to Sydjia Guerra for bringing this lovely canvas bag to my attention.) This “book clutch” reimagines the cover art for Ernest Hemingway’s timeless novella “Old Man and The … Continue reading →

We are now ready to discuss James Madison’s most ingenious and counter-intuitive solution to the problem of factions. With the possible exception of Adam Smith’s invisible hand theory, Madison’s solution has to be one of the most original ideas in … Continue reading →