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(With apologies to SNL stars Michael Che and Colin Jost.) I will be attending the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association (SEA) this weekend, where I will be moderating a panel on “New Perspectives on Adam Smith” (see … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to my previous post, I am posting a few additional links (in chronological order) regarding Keynesian beauty contests: “A Historical Note on the Beauty Contest“, a 2012 paper by Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank, and Rosemarie Nagel (via … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently presented my Hayekian-inspired “truth markets” idea (see here and here) at the annual Loyola ConLaw Colloquium. After my talk, my colleague and friend David Schraub made an insightful observation. According to … Continue reading →

I presented my Hayekian-inspired “truth markets” idea (see here and here) at the annual Loyola (Chicago) ConLaw Colloquium earlier this month (Saturday morning of 5 November). By way of background, my truth market would operate as a “retrodiction market” and … Continue reading →

On this day (15 November) in 1777, after 16 months of parliamentary debate, the Continental Congress approved the short-lived and inherently-flawed Articles of Confederation. (What many of my conservative friends often forget is that the old Articles of 1777 created … Continue reading →

What is the relationship between law and liberty? Below is a recap of my four-part review of Daniel Klein and Michael Clark’s important work on “Direct and Overall Liberty“: Reply to Klein and Clark (part 1): I begin my review by … Continue reading →

See here. Alas, it looks like the “excellent” SBF has defrauded the world of crypto. (As an aside, the Amazing Tyler Cowen is also the co-author of “Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World.” Cowen’s “Talent” … Continue reading →

I will conclude my review of Klein and Clark’s classical liberal theoretical framework (see their 2010 paper on “Direct and Overall Liberty“) by making the following three closely-related observations: Point #1: Ronald Coase’s key insight about the reciprocal nature of … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my review of Klein & Clark because a category 1 hurricane (now a tropical storm) is passing through Central Florida, where I live. Although this storm hit the Bahamas yesterday (see below), I have not seen a … Continue reading →