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I have been meaning to blog about this iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner after the original drawing was sold at an art auction in October 2023 to an anonymous bidder (see here), but somehow I never got around to it! In … Continue reading →

It’s official! My paper “Gödel’s Loophole: A Prequel” was just published as one of five “Selected Pieces from the 2024 ClassCrits Symposium” in the Southwestern Journal of International Law (Vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 613-631); see here.

Traditionally, the law addressed [the problem of harmful effects] by asking such questions as … who caused the harm [and] who acted reasonably. Coase, however, emphasized the reciprocal nature of the problem ….” [Stewart Schwab, “Coase Defends Coase: Why Lawyers Listen and … Continue reading →

I mentioned in my previous post that harms might be a “reciprocal” problem, a simple but counter-intuitive idea with revolutionary implications that can be traced back to the work of the late great Anglo-American economist Ronald Coase, and I also … Continue reading →

I recently stumbled upon this thoughtful commentary on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations by the late great Ronald Coase. Considering that Coase is one of my intellectual heroes (see here, for example), how did I not discover his beautiful essay … Continue reading →

That is the title of my four-page 2007 paper on “judicial decrepitude” — a term coined by historian David Garrow. In brief, building on Garrow’s work, my paper attempts to measure the true extent of the problem of judicial decrepitude … Continue reading →

That is the title of my contribution (in press) to the next issue of the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Among other things, my refereed research article extends Geoffrey Brennan and James Buchanan’s public-choice critique of the “optimal taxation” … Continue reading →