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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.

Antebellum map

Hat tip: GScottCork, via Reddit

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Bayesian updating or Whig history? (Matt Yglesias edition)

Bill Clinton should have resigned. (Updated Nov 19: a milder example of whiggism.) Below the fold, #Irony …

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Winner’s curse?

Check out this excellent essay by art critic Jerry Saltz, via Vulture. According to Mr Saltz, the newly-discovered Leonardo da Vinci painting (pictured below), which was sold for over $450 million, is most likely a sham.

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Beware of well-paid Ivy League law professors who criticize neo-liberalism

David Singh Grewal, a law professor at Yale, and Jedediah Purdy, a law professor at Duke, recently posted this critique of law school education on their “Law and Political Economy” blog, using the famous “Coase theorem” as their straw man. In their … Continue reading

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Sampling of 1970s vintage pocket calculators

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A Bayesian defense of the Hadley rule

Updated Nov. 15 & 20 (see “Notes” below). We recently presented a “Bayesian defense” of the famous legal rule in Hadley v. Baxendale at the 2017 meeting of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB). (Our talk was based on … Continue reading

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Can you draw your favorite trademarked logo from memory?

Probably not. The full story is here, via Zach Schonbrun of The N.Y. Times.

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ATL

Updated Nov. 15: Last weekend, we attended the 2017 meeting of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB) at the renowned Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta, where we presented our Bayesian defense of the rule in Hadley v. … Continue reading

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Mexican Cartels Map

Also, check out this essay by Scott Stewart, via Stratfor: “Mexico’s cartels will continue to splinter in 2017.”

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