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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.

Or is it? See, for example, this explanation of Belgian artist René Magritte’s most famous painting, which is pictured below:

That is the title of this NBER working paper by three early-career academic researchers: Fernando E. Alvarez, David Argente, and Diana Van Patten. (And here is a summary of their research report.) Their paper is excellent, but I want to … Continue reading →

This was my first visit to New Haven since March of 1998, when I attended a conference at Yale (see here), and my first with my wife Sydjia and our daughter Adys. Shout out to Avelo Airlines for their non-stop … Continue reading →

Visiting my alma mater this weekend brought back memories of this hit song by Juan Luis Guerra, which was super popular in Latin America and on Spanish radio stations in the US while I was attending law school.