Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via Ben Orlin’s fun blog Math with Bad Drawings: This list goes against everything I’ve been taught about good writing. Good writing, they say, is vivid and sensory. It involves punchy verbs, … A Brief Collection of Math Metaphors in … Continue reading →

What happens when Jerry Seinfeld meets Homer Simpson? You get a pre-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston! (File under: Questions Rarely Asked.)

In response to Tyler Cowen’s excellent new work, I have explained in two of my previous posts why Ronald Coase deserves to be considered the greatest economist of all time or GOAT, but I have not yet discussed Cowen’s last … Continue reading →

Alternate title: Why Coase is the GOAT (part 3 of 3) Hyper-blogger Tyler Cowen has nominated six men as the greatest economists of all time (GOAT) in his excellent new work on the history of economics: Milton Friedman, John Maynard … Continue reading →

I will conclude my friendly reply to Tyler Cowen explaining why Ronald Coase is the GOAT of modern-day economics (and law!) in the next day or two; in the meantime, below is a 2003 lecture delivered by Coase himself:

In the introduction to his new online work, polymath Tyler Cowen identifies six or seven criteria for deciding who the greatest economist of all time is: To qualify as “GOAT the greatest economist of all time,” I expect the following … Continue reading →

Polymath, “information monster“, and hyper-blogger Tyler Cowen has just self-published a fascinating story-book titled “Who is the greatest economist of all time, and why does it matter?” Alas, the economist who has the strongest claim to GOAT status in economics … Continue reading →

To commemorate the start of the 2023/24 NBA season, check out this nifty tool via the website PerThirtySix as well as Yo Gotti’s hit “LeBron James”, my all-time favorite sports anthem.