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Below is the Tweet version of my joint paper with the formidable Salim Rashid, Die Adam Smith Probleme. (I will have more to say about our work in the next day or two; in the meantime, shout outs to Evandro … Continue reading →

I overheard this classic the other day somewhere along Avenida Santa Fe in Buenos Aires, a song I had not heard in years! It’s the first track on Christian Castro’s 1992 debut solo album Agua Nueva (see here or here), … Continue reading →

Greetings from South America! I will be presenting an updated version of my co-authored paper “Die Adam Smith Problem” (with Salim Rashid, Illinois) on Monday morning, July 15, at a joint meeting of the History of Economics Society (HES) and … Continue reading →

This “Thank you for your thank you card” is something, I believe, my beloved Jorge Luis Borges would have loved!

On this day (11 July) in 1804, an early-morning duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton took place. To commemorate this fateful moment in North American history, I am posting below some historic odds and ends: a YouTube video showcasing … Continue reading →

Yesterday (9 July) was Argentina Independence Day, which my daughter Adys Ann and I celebrated by visiting the Museo Evita in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires. Later today (10 July), we will attend an informal talk or charla on … Continue reading →

FYI: The Bluebook is a collection of incredibly complex and convoluted citation rules used by most U.S. law journals. (Think of Dante’s Inferno, but for footnotes!) I have proposed an alternative set of simpler rules, which I call “Anti-blue“, here.