Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

As I have mentioned in my previous two posts, my plea to my fellow Adam Smith scholars is simple: stop citing the “Lectures on Jurisprudence” without proper qualification or a disclaimer. Even if those lecture notes were totally accurate — … Continue reading →

File under: Not April Fools! As a follow-up to my previous post, there are at least two reasons why scholars of Adam Smith should be more cautious when citing the so-called “Lectures on Jurisprudence” (LJ). To begin with, those student … Continue reading →

I have been attending the annual meeting of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS) this weekend, one of the intellectual and cultural highlights of my academic year. (This year’s IASS conference took place at the University of Salento in Lecce, … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my previous post, my colleague and friend Alain Alcouffe and I are researching Adam Smith’s encounters in the Republic of Geneva during his grand tour with the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch. Among our discoveries is the … Continue reading →

That is the title of my most recent work-in-progress with my colleague and friend Alain Alcouffe. In summary, building on our own original research as well as the previous work of Brian Bonnyman, John Rae, and Ian Simpson Ross, we … Continue reading →

I will continue my survey of my previous scholarly work next week. In the meantime, I will be presenting a new work-in-progress on “Adam Smith and Geneva: Some Long-Lasting Encounters” — along with my friend, colleague, and co-author Alain Alcouffe … Continue reading →

In addition to Thomas Bayes and Ronald Coase (cf. my previous two posts), another “beautiful mind” that has captured my imagination is the mathematical philosopher Kurt Gödel. (Shout out to my colleague and friend Orlando I. Martinez-Garcia, who pointed me … Continue reading →

One of my intellectual heroes is the English economist Ronald Coase. More specifically, a large chunk of my scholarly work can be traced back to two of his landmark papers: The Federal Communications Commission (1959) and The Problem of Social … Continue reading →

My first foray into probability theory was my 2011 paper Chance and Litigation, which explores whether litigation outcomes are random. Although I had not yet rediscovered Bayes’ theorem when I began writing my first probability paper (circa 2008 or 2009), … Continue reading →