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During the past 12 years, I have authored or co-authored a number of scholarly works exploring various aspects of markets and property rights using a “Coasean” lens. In addition to my 2011 paper on “Coase and the Constitution“, for example, … Continue reading →

Check out this short paper on “Variables and parameters” by Douglas Altman and J. Martin Bland, who identify at least three different meanings of the statistical term “parameter” and attempt to distinguish parameters from variables as follows (note: the introductory … Continue reading →

Following up on my Garrincha post, another Cuban artist whose work was featured during the Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies last week was Manuel Almenares Estrada, a photographer who lives and works in Havana. (Here is a short … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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).

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 →