Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Note: This post is part two of our review of “Stubborn Attachments.” We posed the following question in our previous post: What ethical, moral, or legal duties, if any, do we owe to future generations? We also noted that this … Continue reading →

This fascinating question takes center stage in Tyler Cowen’s beautiful new book Stubborn Attachments (pictured below). Professor Cowen, a polymath who teaches economics at George Mason University, combines a branch of moral philosophy called “population ethics” (pioneered by the late … Continue reading →

Via @MarcEdelman: how about selecting Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, and Central Florida (#UCF) — the only four undefeated Division I teams this late into the 2018 college football season — to play in the college football championship?

A meta-thread of some of my favourite Twitter threads! — Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) November 12, 2018 Hat tip: The Amazing Tyler Cowen.

Although most North Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving today, we must never forget that on this day 55 years ago (22 Nov. 1963) President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. What if the presidential motorcade had continued down Main … Continue reading →

During a brief visit to my alma mater UCSB earlier this week (go Gauchos!), my wife Sydjia photographed this bike-path tunnel, which connects the main campus with the seaside college town of Isla Vista. In place of ordinary fluorescent tubes, … Continue reading →

Imagine interstellar trade occurring at the speed of light (or close to light-speed) across galaxies, such as the various constellations pictured below. The economist Paul Krugman imagines just such a science-fiction scenario in a beautiful paper titled “[A] theory of … Continue reading →