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Ronald Coase was an English economist who explained why harms are reciprocal in his oft-cited paper on “The Problem of Social Cost“, which forever changed my view of law, economics, and even morality. (Hat tip to my torts professor Guido … Continue reading →

Based on the some of the helpful feedback I received at last week’s Adam Smith Tokyo conference, I added a new section to my latest Adam Smith paper, which I am co-authoring with Salim Rashid, and made a few other … Continue reading →

💚 🇮🇪 🍀 Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from Japan! For this week’s ‘Sunday song’ feature, I shazamed the remix version of this song somewhere in Kyoto the other night …

This remarkable palace was the residence and work area of the last shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. More details about the Tokugawa family clan and their role in Japanese history are available here.

I found the video below in a vintage 2017 blog post that was originally titled “Turning birds into bullet trains“, but isn’t it the other way around?

Pictured below are the first 13,689 digits of Pi arranged in an Archimedean spiral. Each digit is encoded by a small circle, and the color scheme is the 10-color red-yellow-blue Brewer palette. More details about this amazing graphic are available … Continue reading →

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-pop Also, check out the catchy ballad *Midnight City* by the J-pop band Number_i below:

I am reblogging below an announcement from the International Adam Smith Society (IASS): We are excited to release the final program for our 2024 conference [this] week at Weseda University, Tokyo. The program may be found here. We would … … Continue reading →

I am attending this year’s meeting of the International Adam Smith Society at Waseda University in Tokyo this week — here is a link to this year’s program; my talk on “Die Adam Smith Probleme” is scheduled for the afternoon of … Continue reading →