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Jeff Desjardins poses the following question in this report: “What has more value: all major publicly traded department stores in the United States, or Amazon?” The answer is Amazon. In the words of Mr Desjardins: “Add together the market caps … Continue reading →

What’s wrong with this picture? Read about this visual paradox here.

  Dirk B. created a scale map of the world out of LEGO bricks. You can read more about his project here and here.

We’ve heard many fancy restaurants are starting to ban children, but did you know that Apple Park, Apple’s massive $5 billion spaceship campus (pictured below) consisting of 2,800,000 square feet, doesn’t have a single childcare facility. More here, via CNET. (Hat tip: Ryan … Continue reading →

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My wife and I took turns driving from Orlando, Florida to Savannah, Georgia via various interstate highways earlier today in order to attend the annual meeting of Academy of Legal Studies in Business (#ALSB): I-4 East to I-95 North to … Continue reading →

We presented our contagion model of rule evasion in our previous post. Here, however, we shall point out some flaws with our model. To begin with, our model implies that actors are either law-abiding or law-evading, when in reality, actors … Continue reading →

In our previous post, we proposed the possibility of a “contagion model” of legal evasion, noting that such a model is plausible given that people tend to copy or imitate what other people are doing. Here, we present the details … Continue reading →

In our previous post, we commented on our colleague Alex Raskolnikov’s simple model of legal uncertainty in his excellent paper titled “Probabilistic Compliance” (Yale Journal on Regulation, 2017). To sum up, we loved his probabilistic model of compliance (in our … Continue reading →