Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.

Francesca Gino update

I have been following this case closely and have blogged about it before. (See here, here, here, and here.) In brief, Francesca Gino, the disgraced Harvard Business School (HBS) professor who was celebrated for her research on honesty and ethical … Continue reading

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Never forget

A day that will live in infamy: 26 August 2021 was the third largest single-day loss of life for our US armed forces in Afghanistan — 11 Marines, one sailor, and one soldier were killed in Kabul during our precipitous … Continue reading

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Sunday song: Just in case

Alain and I will resume our series on “Adam Smith and the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris” after Memorial Day; in the meantime, here is another Morgan Wallen banger for your auditory enjoyment:

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Adam Smith and the salon of Madame du Deffand

Note: This blog post is based on the first draft of part 5 of my forthcoming paper with Alain Alcouffe, “Adam Smith and the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris” (footnotes omitted): Located about 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) from the intersection of … Continue reading

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Adam Smith in the salon of the duchesse d’Enville

Note: This blog post is based on the first draft of part 4 of my forthcoming paper with Alain Alcouffe, “Adam Smith and the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris” (footnotes omitted): Located just a few steps from the Rue du Colombier … Continue reading

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Adam Smith’s Paris lodgings in 1766

Note: This blog post is based on the first draft of part 3 of my forthcoming paper with Alain Alcouffe, “Adam Smith and the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris” (footnotes are below the fold): Adam Smith’s primary residence during his sojourn … Continue reading

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Wikipedia Wednesday: *List of national emergencies in the United States*

Alain and I will resume our series on “Adam Smith and the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris” in our next post. In the meantime, via Wikipedia (footnotes omitted): “As of April 2025, 90 emergencies have been declared; 41 have expired and … Continue reading

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Mapping the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris

In our previous post, Alain Alcouffe and I mentioned that we would be using an 18th-century map of Paris, the Plan de Turgot (a reproduction of which is pictured below in its final assembled form), to map Adam Smith’s proximity … Continue reading

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Adam Smith and the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris

One of the institutions of the long 18th century that has most captured the imaginations of my co-author, friend, and fellow student of Adam Smith’s grand-tour years (1764-66) Alain Alcouffe and I are the famed salons of pre-revolutionary Paris. Among … Continue reading

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Gone but not goodbye

Today (18 May) would have been my friend Andre’s 53rd birthday. You were a loyal husband to Tricia, a devoted father to Zan, a loving son to Dexter and Marcia … and to me, a true friend and intellectual comrade-in-arms. … Continue reading

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