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Moving movie posters
Via kottke: “Pablo Eyre took a number of movie posters featuring photography from their respective movies and replaced the photos with actual scenes. I imagine this is what movie posters look like in Harry Potter.” (Check out Mr Eyre’s website … Continue reading
The Mathematics of Bookmaking
In the gambling world, vigorish refers to the amount charged by a bookmaker, or bookie, for taking a bet from a gambler. We found the following formal definition of vigorish on the walls of a tavern in the Old Town … Continue reading
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Are smartphone videos “speech” or “conduct”?
This is an important legal question, since “speech” is generally protected under the First Amendment, while “conduct” can be prohibited and punished. At this year’s Loyola constitutional law colloquium in Chicago, professor Alan K. Chen explained why digital photographs and … Continue reading
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What does it mean to “interpret” the Constitution?
This is one of the penetrating questions Richard Posner posed at the Sixth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium at Loyola University in Chicago. According to Judge Posner, judges resort to various ad hoc theories of interpretation to decide cases when the … Continue reading
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“The Coasian Constitution”
That is the title of our most recent work-in-progress in which we suggest replacing judicial review with some form of “constitutional arbitration.” We will present our work during the Sixth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium sponsored by the Loyola School of … Continue reading
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Television Markets in the Continental U.S.
Why not use this map of broadcast TV markets to create a new system of congressional voting districts and thus solve the gerrymandering problem in politics? Hat tip: elliotd303 (via reddit).
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The Economics of Internet Platforms
Question: What do all of these Internet platforms have in common? In the case of Uber, Alibaba, and Airbnb, these platforms create new markets by bringing together sellers and buyers … But what type of market is Facebook creating? (Hat … Continue reading
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“Breaking Bad and the Natural Law Tradition”
Update (2 Feb. 2016): Our paper has a new title: “So Long Suckers: Bargaining and Betrayal in Breaking Bad.” We’ve posted a complete draft of our working paper on SSRN, and we’ve posted our new abstract here. That is the … Continue reading
Trick or Treat? A Reverse Dutch Auction of Puerto Rico’s Public Debts
This is the most novel solution to Puerto Rico’s current debt crisis we’ve studied thus far, an idea attributed to Professor Arturo Estrella, an economist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York State. (We say “attributed to” because we can’t … Continue reading
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prior probability 