prior probability

A = Ten Great Papers to Expand Your Econ Frameworks (or see below the fold);

B = Ludwig von Mises and the Six Lessons of the Austrian Economic School (ditto)

This post is for Star Trek fans: click here or on the image below for a set of four navigational charts of the five-year voyage of the Starship Enterprise as well as a copy of the book Introduction to Navigation: Star Fleet Command. PS: It took 11 years, but my quirky little blog generated its 500,000th hit over the weekend!

I heard this song for the first time a few days ago on a Spanish-language TV show (Primer Impacto) and immediately loved it! PS: I will post the full song when I can find it.

Below are some college courses that have caught my attention:

1. English 183ts. Taylor Swift and Her World (Harvard)

2. Forbidden Courses (Austin)

3. Jurisprudence (Chicago)

In honor of Gary Larson‘s 74th birthday, which was two days ago (14 August), see below:

I will be taking the day off, for today (the 15th of August) Catholics around the world celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (see here or here), and in Mexico, our Lady Mary or the “Virgen of Guadalupe” is also celebrated every December 12.

In addition to reading Peter L. Bernstein’s Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (the cover of which is pictured below), now that I’m back home I am preparing a book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan and writing up a new paper on a possible connection between an anonymous pamphlet from 1763 titled Richesses de l’etat and Adam Smith’s magnum opus–specifically, his maxims of taxation in Book 5, chapter 2 of The Wealth of Nations. But this is just a small sample of my scholarly sabbatical activities, I will post further updates soon.

This Spanish courtyard in Winter Park is one of my favorite places in Central Florida. It’s just a few minutes from my abode, and I often like do my reading and writing there in the morning hours when it is mostly empty.

See also this report by Whitney Afonso: “Local sales tax laws: state by state details“.