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.

Taxonomy of parking garage layouts

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Beetle collection

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Should Twitter kill the like button?

For our part, we say, Good Riddance! Here are some reasons why: Karissa Bell, “Why Facebook and Instagram [and Twitter] should kill the like button,” via Mashable. Liraz Margalit, “Our obsession with ‘like’ (part 1),” via Psychology Today. James Somers, … Continue reading

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Trick or treat?

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AI 1, human lawyers 0

Check out this report by Jonathan Marciano describing a fascinating experiment in which a group of corporate lawyers with decades of experience in business law competed against an artificial intelligence (AI) program called LawGeex. Their task was to spot issues … Continue reading

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Excerpt from “The Motel Project: Tampa, FL”

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The Motel Project: Tampa, FL

That is the title of a new book published by our friend Drew Y. Jackson, a Renaissance man extraordinaire. His beautiful book contains a collection of photographs of several motels in the Tampa region and of some of the souls … Continue reading

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Legalized extortion? (Sagrada Familia edition)

Check out this report by India Block titled “Sagrada Familia agrees [to] €36 million payment after building 136 years with no permit.” In summary, the famous Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona, which has been under construction since 1882 (!), never … Continue reading

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Review of Friedman (last post)

Instead of rehashing our previous posts, we wish to conclude our review of Milton Friedman’s 1970 essay on business ethics by returning to the problem of theory choice. In brief, the problem is this: Friedman is writing about business ethics, … Continue reading

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Review of Friedman (penultimate post): politics versus markets redux

The late great Milton Friedman returns to a larger theme in the last part of his classic essay on business ethics (paragraphs 28 to 33): the different domains of markets and politics. To sum up Professor Friedman’s closing argument: he … Continue reading

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