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For this installment of my Game-Theory Thursday series (here is the previous installment), I want to feature my 2012 paper “Modelling the Coase Theorem,” which is available here via SSRN. What is so special about this paper, you might ask? … Continue reading →

Check out this unique portrait of Winston Churchill by artist Kim Jackson. Look closely, for this collage is composed entirely of cigar labels! Also, check out Kim Jackson’s website here. (Hat tip to Mark, the friendly and expert proprietor of … Continue reading →

Kris (@KrisAbdelmessih) asks, and I paraphrase, “How is Twitter disrupting academia?” Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen), the world’s most prolific (and eclectic!) academic blogger, responds here. Tyler’s response, however, begs the following second-order question, Should serious academics (ha!) be on Twitter in … Continue reading →

More details about composer Karl Jenkins and his Diamond Music album are available here. (Via YouTube: “Camille et Julie Berthollet avec l’orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo dirigé par Julien Masmondet.”)

Did Adam Smith know what it was like to be in love? AdamSmithWorks, a beautiful website devoted to all things Smith, has just published my “Adam Smith in Love” primer here. (By the way, one of my favorite parts of … Continue reading →

This will be my 10th and last blog post devoted to the contested concept of self-ownership. In summary, I have presented the main arguments against self-ownership, and I have found those arguments to be overrated or woefully inadequate. At the … Continue reading →

Can ordinary office supplies like the humble pencil be works of art? Why not? I will conclude my series on the theory of self-ownership in my next post before turning my attention to the Zapruder film, but in the meantime, … Continue reading →

Alternative Title #1: The Paradigm of Self-Ownership (Part 2) Alternative Title #2: Ben Bryant’s Middle-Way In this post, I want to challenge the paradigm of self-ownership by presenting a competing paradigm, one that recognizes our collective obligations to society and … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on self-ownership in my next post, but in the meantime, it has come to my attention (see here, hat tip: Kottke) that the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina … Continue reading →

Now that I have surveyed the main arguments against self-ownership, I will conclude this series of blog posts by taking a detour into the philosophy of science–specifically, by talking about Kuhnian “paradigms” and Lakotian “research programs.” (Four of the world’s … Continue reading →