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Professor Solum featured (and recommended!) my recent work on “The Buchanan-Samuels Exchange” on his Legal Theory blog (see here), where he reports and comments on recent scholarship in jurisprudence and constitutional law. Here is the paper.

It’s insane to think that there are still Marxists out there, most of whom live comfortable lives in wealthy capitalist countries. Back in 2019, my colleague (and new friend!) Mike Huemer wrote (my emphasis): “I’ve been known to cite Marxism … Continue reading →

That is the title of a new book by Anthony Gottlieb on the life and ideas of the great but perplexing 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. (I found this 2025 book on the shelves of Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop … Continue reading →

This was the first song I heard (and Shazamed) after arriving in Nice, France, last week!

Did you know that Elon Musk’s “DOGE” project — the misnamed Department of Government Efficiency — ended up costing the government four times more money that it saved? My favorite talk, by far, at this year’s joint meeting of the … Continue reading →

I will be presenting two co-authored works on Adam Smith today (28 May) and tomorrow Friday (29 May) at the first-ever joint meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society, which … Continue reading →

Greetings from Nice, France! This afternoon (Wednesday, 27 May), I will be joining an academic panel on “Law, Organizations, and Institutions“, where I will be presenting my paper “Coase’s fable” and commenting on a paper by Edward Nik-Khah (Roanoke College): … Continue reading →

Today (Tuesday, 26 May), I will be attending three talks on F. A. Hayek at seize heures (16:00) Nice time: Hayek on economic development by Bruce Caldwell (Duke); Hayek at Freiburg: drifting away from ordoliberalism by Hansjörg Klausinger (WU Vienna); … Continue reading →

How can we differentiate AI-music or AI-poetry or AI-whatever from human-made songs, poems, etc.? On this note, I have been debating with myself whether to share this mellow music, which might be AI-generated (see here, for example) and which popped … Continue reading →