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My 2025 Adam Smith papers
Among other things, in 2025 I wrote or finished editing the following works on Adam Smith: 1. A New Discovery about Adam Smith in Geneva (with Alain Alcouffe, see below) 2. A Plea to Adam Smith Scholars (published in Adam … Continue reading
Assorted Yuletide links
As a gift to my loyal readers, below are a few of my favorite Internet links that I stumbled upon at various moments during the past two years:
Friday funnies: science funding edition
Bonus Friday Funny: “Uncle Put More Thought Than Usual into this Year’s Gift Cards” via The Onion.
The domain of Coase’s axiom
In my previous post, I explained why Ronald Coase’s reciprocal-harm insight should be treated as an axiom, i.e. an indemonstrable first principle or formal logical expression used in a deduction to yield further results. Today (Merry Christmas!), I will explore … Continue reading
Coase’s axiom
Feliz Nochebuena; Happy Christmas Eve! As readers of this blog may know, I have long been fascinated with Ronald Coase’s counter-intuitive insight that harms are a “reciprocal” problem. What you may not know, however, is that this simple idea has … Continue reading
Coase’s fable follow-up
I mentioned in a previous post that my latest work-in-progress “Coase’s fable” is a follow-up to two previous papers I wrote, one titled “Coase’s parable”; the other, “Modelling the Coase Theorem.” Now, as a follow-up to my follow-up (!), I … Continue reading

