Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

https://twitter.com/farnamstreet/status/514362704312934401?refsrc=email For us, it’s either Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict (look it up!), or … anything ever written by David Hume. (Via Marginal Revolution.)

The John Marshall Law Review or JMLR has just published our paper (with Orlando I. Martinez-Garcia) “Does the Prisoner’s Dilemma Refute the Coase Theorem?” (Our editors were a little behind schedule, as the official citation to our paper is JMLR, … Continue reading →

Hat tip: tormunk (via reddit). 

      Hat tip: Holger Zschaepitz (via Twitter).

Which side is bluffing in the current Game of Chicken* between Greece and the EU? (*Or is it a “War of Attrition”?) Maybe we should be asking a different question: Who has more to lose if Greece were to leave the … Continue reading →

How are lawyers, law firms, and law professors all connected in a given legal jurisdiction? Using the advanced mapping and mathematical methods of network theory, our close friend and colleague Orlando I. Martinez-Garcia, a respected attorney and adjunct in the … Continue reading →

The facts: (a) A right-wing politician makes an indecent proposal in the National Review regarding the Supreme Court. (b) An intellectual judge, responding to this silly proposal, then calls out the politician on his personal blog–a wonderful blog, by the way, called … Continue reading →

 How did we all get stuck using the Gregorian calendar? Aside from the QWERTY problem, can you think of any other examples of a network effect keeping us in a suboptimal equilibrium? How about LinkedIn, licensure requirements, or three years of law school? (If … Continue reading →

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