Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Or will Biden? See here: https://manifold.markets/BusinessLawProf/will-president-biden-release-by-dec In the meantime, it is worth noting that we were lied to about this the last time around (see here), but fwiw check out this report, via Forbes.

Oh, the irony! The self-described “progressive constitutionalist” Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet published his latest paper on court reform (without, alas, any sense of irony) the day after the re-election of Donald J. Trump!

Gino is the Harvard Business School professor accused of using fake data in her papers, including at least one purporting to show how to elicit honest behavior (see here, for example)! Earlier this week, Daniel Engber, a senior editor at … Continue reading →

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence Alas, I have no idea how I stumbled upon this particular Wikipedia entry, but Chesterton’s fence is the Smithian idea that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood, and the original … Continue reading →

Are college professors, lawyers, political pollsters, or opera singers examples of productive or unproductive labour? Does this distinction even make sense? See, for example, this short lecture by the imitable Tyler Cowen explaining Adam Smith’s classic distinction, via Marginal Revolution … Continue reading →

That is the title of this beautiful homage to the great Martin Gardner by Rebecca DeLee (Liberty University). See also this brief biography titled “A Mind for the Masses“, according to which “Gardner never took a college math course yet … Continue reading →