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The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Coase Theorem are two widely-cited ideas in economics and law. As it happens, one of my papers is titled “Does the Prisoner’s Dilemma Refute the Coase Theorem?,” which I co-wrote with my colleague and friend … Continue reading →

That is the title of my 2008 applied game theory paper in which I model the impasse over Puerto Rico’s political status as a three-person duel (or “truel”) and the question I fed into ChatGPT last night. Below the fold … Continue reading →

I fed the title question of my 2013 contribution to Economics of the Undead (Chapter 12: “Buy or bite?“) into ChatGPT and was told, “I’m sorry, I am not sure what you are asking. Could you please provide more context … Continue reading →

Following up on my previous two posts, I was going to feed another one of my research questions into ChatGPT, but the OpenAI website says that “ChatGPT is at capacity right now” so my Monday music series is back by … Continue reading →

That is the question I fed into ChatGPT (the same question in the title of my 2007 empirical study on “judicial decrepitude”), and this is the goody-two-shoes response I received from the bot: It is not appropriate to use terms … Continue reading →

Many academic law professors have left-leaning biases (to put it mildly) and spend significant amounts of time posing long-winded research questions and writing lengthy law review articles. (A few are even eloquent writers.) Likewise, ChatGPT is a left-leaning (see here, … Continue reading →

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Earlier this week, I introduced the students in my business law honors section to Tom Bingham’s classic work The Rule of Law, which is available here, by the way. To start the discussion, I asked my students to tell me … Continue reading →

Following up on my previous post, it turns out that my proposal for a Hayekian “truth market” (i.e. a retrodiction market) has at least two recent antecedents, i.e. above and beyond John Stuart Mill’s original “marketplace of ideas” metaphor from … Continue reading →

Below are just a few recent headlines involving conspiracy theories that have caught my attention: Via the Associated Press (Sophia Tulp): “As elites arrive in Davos, conspiracy theories thrive online“ Via Mediaite (Candace Ortiz): “Joe Rogan theorizes Joe Biden’s own … Continue reading →