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Gino is the Harvard Business School professor accused of using fake data in her papers, including at least one purporting to show how to elicit honest behavior (see here, for example)! Earlier this week, Daniel Engber, a senior editor at … Continue reading →

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence Alas, I have no idea how I stumbled upon this particular Wikipedia entry, but Chesterton’s fence is the Smithian idea that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood, and the original … Continue reading →

Are college professors, lawyers, political pollsters, or opera singers examples of productive or unproductive labour? Does this distinction even make sense? See, for example, this short lecture by the imitable Tyler Cowen explaining Adam Smith’s classic distinction, via Marginal Revolution … Continue reading →

That is the title of this beautiful homage to the great Martin Gardner by Rebecca DeLee (Liberty University). See also this brief biography titled “A Mind for the Masses“, according to which “Gardner never took a college math course yet … Continue reading →

I know of only two such instances in my field (law): my colleagues Brian Frye and Maybell Romero co-authored “The Right to Unmarry: A Proposal” and, pictured below, my wife and former student(!) Sydjia Robinson and yours truly co-authored a … Continue reading →

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati As a follow up to my previous post in honor of the memory of Thomas Konda, I am sharing the Wikipedia link for the entry for “Illuminati” as well as one of my favorite excerpts from this entry, linking … Continue reading →

I just learned that Thomas Milan Konda died on 29 January 2022 at the age of 74. (Here is his obituary.) Among other things, Professor Konda was the author of Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America (University of … Continue reading →