Tag Archives: Ronald Coase

A Coasian critique of Kurt Gray’s harm thesis: part 1 of 3

Posted on January 20, 2025 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Yesterday, I read Elizabeth Kolbert’s review (see here) of Kurt Gray’s new book Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground on pp. 63-65 of the January 20th issue of The New Yorker. Among … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Economics, Ethics, kurt-gray, Politics, reciprocal-harms, Ronald Coase | 1 Comment

“The possibility of a general theory of emergency”

Posted on October 19, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

That is the subtitle of this fascinating paper — the full title of the paper is “Exception and Necessity: The Possibility of a General Theory of Emergency” — written by our colleague William Vazquez-Irizarry, a law professor at the University of Puerto Rico. … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Law, Philosophy | Tagged John Rawls, Necessity, Ronald Coase, State of Exception | Leave a comment

The problem of reclining airplane seats

Posted on October 7, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We forwarded our 3 October blog post “The Right to Recline?” to several scholars, including our gentle friends Terry Anderson, Christopher Buccafusco, and Chris Sprigman. (By the way, Professors Buccafusco and Sprigman, in particular, had previously published this thoughtful essay on airplane seat reclining.) In summary, … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Property Rights | Tagged Airplane Seats, Cattle Trespass, Coase Theorem, Ronald Coase | 2 Comments

Coase’s lighthouse

Posted on September 4, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

In honor of Ronald Coase, an intellectual giant who just died at the ripe old age of 102, prior probability wants to share this excerpt from section 3 of our paper Confessions of a Latino Law Prof to explain the immense impact … Continue reading →