A personal view on a number of topics.

Religion and the European Union

In “Religion and the European Union,” we point out that the recent literature on cultural differences across euro member states fails to…

Property Rights in Sequential Exchange

From Coase (1960) to Akerlof (1970), Williamson (1979), and Grossman and Hart (1986), economic models assume that transactors are well…

Evolving Practice in Land Demarcation

Efforts to plan economic development tend to apply uniform and supposedly optimal solutions, increasingly expressed in terms of targets…

Diverging Separatisms

By Benito Arruñada and Albert Satorra. Adapted translation of “Separatismos divergentes,” El País, May 17, 2018, p. 14. The outcome of the…