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Epstein’s Critique of Hayek (Part 2)
In our previous post, we identified (via the loquacious Professor Richard Epstein) a potential contradiction in Hayek’s influential theory of “spontaneous order.” Briefly, decentralized markets are a good example of a spontaneous order, but markets require a set of rules … Continue reading
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Epstein’s Critique of Hayek (Part 1)
We recently attended Richard Epstein’s lecture at George Mason University on “The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty.” (Disclosure: we are big fans of Epstein’s book “Simple Rules for a Complex World.”) In his lecture, Epstein delivered several devastating blows against … Continue reading
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Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
The law library of George Mason University has a wonderful collection of bobblehead dolls of our Supreme Court Justices and other historical jurists.
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Epstein on Hayek on Liberty
We will be attending a public lecture later today (10/8) by NYU law professor Richard Epstein on “The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty.” If you are in the metro DC area, please join us. The lecture is scheduled for four o’clock in the … Continue reading
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“Facebook Ethics” (A/B testing edition)
Thus far this semester, we have been reading about the historic events that occurred in Harvard College in late 2003-early 2004 and in Silicon Valley during the summer 2004 leading up to the launching and subsequent explosive growth of Facebook (or “thefacebook,” as … Continue reading
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Legal liability of “innocent” co-authors for research fraud
Last week, we published a short letter in the journal Science in which we proposed extending the intentional tort of fraudulent misrepresentation to the most egregious cases of research fraud. After all, why should alleged academic fraudsters like Michael LaCour (political science) … Continue reading
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Mapping the writers and the works of “the lost generation”
Credit: Martin Varnic (via kottke).
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prior probability 