Research

This is just a partial listing of my research projects and is presented as follows: (1) works in progress, (2) books and book chapters, (3) papers about Bayes, (4) papers about Coase, (5) papers about constitutional law, (6) papers about teaching, (7) research papers posted on arXiv, (8) research papers posted on SSRN, (9) reviews, and (10) shorter works. (Updated: January of 2023.)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

  • Truth Markets (available here via SSRN)
  • Adam Smith in Paris, Part 1: First Impressions (available here via SSRN)
  • Adam Smith in Paris, Part II: Through the Eyes of Horace Walpole (available here via SSRN)

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Business Law & Strategy, with Sean Melvin and David Orozco (McGraw Hill, 2d ed., 2023).
  • Adam Smith in Love, in Daniel B. Klein & Jason Briggeman, editors, Hume, Smith, Burke (CL Press, 2022), pp. 154-185. (This book chapter was first published in Econ Journal Watch and is available here.)
  • Breaking Bad Promises, in Joshua Heter & Brett Coppenger, editors, Better Call Saul and Philosophy (Open Court, 2022), pp. 227-235.
  • Buy or Bite?, in Glen Whitman & James Dow, editors, Economics of the Undead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), pp. 123-129. (This book is available here; my chapter “Buy or Bite” was featured on Freakonomics Radio.)
  • El ajedrez in Blade Runner: lecciones de la Partida Inmortal, in Daniel Nina, editor, Blade Runner: memoria, vigilancia y el sujeto desechable, Ediciones Callejón (2008), pp. 105-130. (This book is available here.)

PAPERS ABOUT BAYES’ THEOREM AND “BAYESIAN VOTING”

PAPERS ABOUT THE COASE THEOREM

PAPERS ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, HISTORY, AND THEORY

PAPERS ABOUT TEACHING

PAPERS POSTED ON “ArXiv”

PAPERS POSTED ON SSRN

  • See my SSRN homepage here.

REVIEWS

  • Do Grasshoppers Dream of Impartial Spectators?, reviews of Robin Paul Malloy, “Law and the Invisible Hand: A Theory of Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence” (Cambridge U Press, 2022), and Ryan Patrick Hanley, “Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life” (Princeton U Press, 2019).
  • Frank Ramsey’s Contributions to Probability Theory and Legal Theory, review of Cheryl Misak’s 2020 biography of Frank Ramsey.
  • Cowen’s Capitalist Manifesto, review of Tyler Cowen 2019 love letter to big business (featured on Marginal Revolution).
  • The Problem with Precedent, review of Randy J. Kozel, “Settled Versus Right: A Theory of Precedent” (Cambridge U Press, 2017), published in The Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2018), pp. 497-504.
  • Exit, Voice, and Boilerplate, review Nathan B. Oman, “The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and Moral Foundations of Contract Law” (University of Chicago Press, 2017), published in The New Rambler (July 17, 2017).
  • The Evolutionary Path of the Law, review of Ullica Segerstråle, “Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton” (Oxford U Press, 2013), published in The Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 878-890.
  • A Beautiful Life: Some Lessons for Legal Scholars, review of Jeremy Adelman, “Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman” (Princeton U Press, 2013), published in The Mississippi College Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2014), pp. 495-501.

SHORTER WORKS

Image Credit: Giovanni Parmigiani.

5 Responses to Research

  1. enrique says:

    Enrique will post more of his papers in the coming weeks …

  2. Jonathan O'Donnell says:

    Hi Enrique

    When you crowdfund the Litigation Game boardgame, let me know. I’d fund that. 🙂

    Thanks for subscribing to The Research Whisperer.

    Jonathan

  3. Eva Graham says:

    Hello Professor
    I was drawn to your work The Parable of the Prisoners because of my interest in cooperation among litigating parties. Your piece was insightful and worthy of praise for its historical context, and despite some complexities in the subject matter, you were able to provide an easy to understand format to grasp the far-reaching tentacles of the “Parable of the Prisoners” model.

    I’m looking forward to reading more of your upcoming posts.

    Eva

    • enrique says:

      Thanks Eva! I see civil and criminal litigation as a “war of attrition” or “mixed-motive game” (to borrow Thomas Schelling’s term) in which, although the economic interests of the opposing parties are in conflict, there is a lot of room for cooperation.

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