Category Archives: Uncategorized
Coase and the Constitution: Concluding Post
It’s time to wrap up my series on “Coase and the Constitution“, which I had put on hold last week to attend to other matters. The top two citations to my work appear on the pages of the Columbia Law … Continue reading
A modest proposal (geopolitical edition)
Ukraine for Cuba? Why not? I’m just thinking out loud here, but if the Russians were to launch an invasion of Ukraine (even a “minor” one), then the United States should invoke the Monroe Doctrine (look it up!) and invade … Continue reading
Two cheers for Garrincha
During the Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at FIU this past week, I discovered the work of Garrincha, which is the pen name of Gustavo Rodriguez, a Cuban-born artist who now resides in the USA. Both of his … Continue reading
Visualization of “c”
where c is the universal constant for the speed of light. In words, the speed of light traveling through a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second, or exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (hat tip: @pickover).
Postage Stamp Art
Via Kottke: “artist and type designer Marie Boulanger selected 26 postage stamps from around the world with letters on them (C for Cuba, F for France, K for Kenya, etc.) and 10 stamps with the numerals 0-9 on them.” Nine … Continue reading
Lost Dogs
Check out this collage of reward offers and then try to guess which of them are legally enforceable.
Breaking Bad Promises!
I have just posted to SSRN a revised and corrected version of my forthcoming chapter “Breaking Bad Promises” — to be published in Joshua Heter & Brett Coppenger, editors, Better Call Saul and Philosophy (Open Universe), which is now in … Continue reading
The Leibniz Conspiracy?
I am interrupting my multi-part series on “Coase and the Constitution” to let everyone know that I have posted to SSRN a revised version of my latest paper, which is titled “The Leibniz Conspiracy” and which will be published in … Continue reading
Coase and the Constitution: Reply to MacDonald
Trent J. MacDonald, a research fellow at RMIT University, cites “Coase and the Constitution” on page 86 of The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit (Elgar, 2019), a beautiful book that “explores the theoretical possibility of ‘unbundling’ government functions and decentralising … Continue reading

