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Alternate title: The problems with State and federal RICO laws The original Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act was enacted by the Congress in 1970. (Thirty-three States, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, have also … Continue reading →

Today (15 August) is a Holy Day for Catholics and Orthodox Christians: the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgen Mary; look it up! To commemorate this occasion, I am posting below a screenshot of El Greco’s first major … Continue reading →

Hello! I am a college professor who teaches an undergraduate survey course in business law and ethics. Among other things, my home institution requires faculty to assign an “academic engagement activity” during the first week of the semester. Ordinarily, I … Continue reading →

Alternate title: Census of New York City Superhereos

Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Moshe Porat is the disgraced former Dean of the Fox School of Business at Temple University who was convicted of committing wire fraud for falsifying data to boost the ranking of his school’s online … Continue reading →

Some say it does; others, however–like my colleague and new friend Matt Perault, the director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)–say no, it does not! Either way, this is a novel question … Continue reading →

I am reblogging below Ken Regan’s informative post “Should These Quantities Be Linear?“, via Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP: Drastic proposals for revamping the chess rating system Jeff Sonas is a statistician who runs a consulting firm. He also studies … Continue reading →

Professor Frankfurt died last month at 94. Among other things, his beautiful extended essays on love, truth, and bullshit are still worth reading … and will, I believe, be read for many more years to come.

Oh, the irony! Alleged fraudster Francesca Gino has not only filed a lawsuit against her university for gender discrimination; she is also suing a trio of scholarly bloggers–Uri Simonsohn, Joe Simmons, and Leif Nelson, the academic authors of the “Data … Continue reading →