Lynne Kiesling Over at Truck and Barter Ian cook has a post on a new nanotech solar achievement. This company claims to have used nanotech’s self-organizing properties to get the cost of generating power using solar energy to 5 cents per kilowatt hour. I hope that this breakthrough is robust. Another solar nanotech entrepreneur is …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t read or link to Technology Liberation Front frequently enough. I typically find that the authors there make arguments similar to ones I would make, and do so with more eloquence and expertise. Take, for example, this recent post from Adam Thierer on telecom mergers, which provides some useful analysis of why …
Lynne Kiesling I follow in the footsteps of the super-fantastic Manolo and Ann Althouse to agree that it’s incredibly refreshing to see authoritative women like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dressing in a fashionable, complex, not-safe-and-blend-into-the-background manner. And as a fellow knee-high boot afficionado (and athlete), I sense a kindred spirit there … I think …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Stuart Benjamin at Volokh Conspiracy for his post on spectrum poicy, including a reference to this National Journal article on spectrum. The evidence keeps mounting that a spectrum policy that 1. is based on licensing and not ownership, 2. protects the fractured incumbency, and 3. is so clearly a political and …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s a useful resource for you RSS feed junkies: a database of RSS feeds for newspapers in the US. Of the 1178 papers listed, only 85 (or 7.2%) of them have RSS feeds. It’s set up as a wiki, so if you know of RSS feeds for any papers listed there as not …
Lynne Kiesling My first stab at answering the question at the end of my previous post starts with what I think is a basic claim, but one that does not get discussed much, or well, in electricity policy debates: All other things equal, organic competition outperforms ordered/managed competition in delivering long-run dynamic benefits to both …
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Lynne Kiesling My first stab at answering the question at the end of my previous post starts with what I think is a basic claim, but one that does not get discussed much, or well, in electricity policy debates: All other things equal, organic competition outperforms ordered/managed competition in delivering long-run dynamic benefits to both …
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Lynne Kiesling Those of you who read KP for commentary and analysis of electricity regulatory policy (and I thank you sincerely for doing so!) have probably noticed a relative dearth of such commentary and analysis in the past couple of months. I can’t speak for Mike, but the truth is that for my part, I …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s a placeholder link to some new (to me!) economics and technology sites, until I have time to update the links template: Division of Labour (home of my long-standing and delightful acquaintances Larry White and Deirdre McCloskey, although DM has yet to post) Market Power Economics Roundtable (not really new to me, but …
Lynne Kiesling OK, so I’m listening to WOXY in my office, and they’re playing this cool hip-hoppy/rappy/soulful Handsome Boy Modeling School song called “The Truth”, and the male vocalist actually just used the phrase ceteris paribus. And used it pretty correctly, in the context of a song lyric … pretty funny!
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