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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 →

Ted Gioia, “The force-feeding of AI on an unwilling public“ John Nosta, “What if AI isn’t intelligence but anti-intelligence?” Ronald Purser, “AI is destroying the University and learning itself“ Thomas Urbain, “Justice at stake as generative AI enters the courtroom“ … Continue reading →

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: Central Intelligence Agency, “Simple Sabatoge Field Manual” (1963) Daniel Crane, “The Law … Continue reading →

Bonus Friday Funny: “Uncle Put More Thought Than Usual into this Year’s Gift Cards” via The Onion.

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 →

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 →

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 →

Interview with Tyler Cowen, prolific author, globetrotter, and “information monster” extraordinaire. Interview with Alex Guerrero, political theorist and author of Lottocracy (pictured below). Interview with Timothy Snyder, the professor who cried wolf.