Lynne Kiesling The Wall Street Journal is full of goodies today. Although I am tempted to write about the front-page article on “Two-Buck Chuck” entrepreneur Fred Franzia, I will confine my enthusiasm to discussing lead editorial entitled “Telecom Shootout” (subscription required). This editorial coincides with a lot of my thinking on the current merger activity …
Lynne Kiesling Today the Supreme Court hears the oral arguments in the Kelo vs. New London eminent domain case. Bill Steigerwald’s column in today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is an interview with Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice attorney who will be making the argument for the landowner. Bullock will try to persuade the high court to …
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Lynne Kiesling Tech Central Station has an article today on tax policy in New Zealand from Veronique de Rugy. She describes the background of the changes to the tax code in the 1980s, and how New Zealand has experienced economic growth as a consequence. Tax policy is not the only area in which New Zealand …
Lynne Kiesling Leave it to Will Wilkinson to put the point so clearly and succinctly: institutions are capital. They are capital with a very strong interaction with other inputs. One of Will’s commenters argues that institutions cannot be owned and are therefore not capital. I disagree. We have lots of examples of things we consider …
Michael Giberson We here at The Knowledge Problem don’t do much meta-blogging, which may make us sort of an outlier in the blogging world. But a lot of the blogging about blogging just isn’t that interesting, and, speaking now just for myself, I don’t know that I could do any better. However, there are some …
Lynne Kiesling With thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the mention on Sunday, I second his links to two recent Wired articles. One from September 2004 looks at the proposed development of several new pebble-bed nuclear plants in China over the next 20 years. Pebble-bed is an 80-year-old technology; in this post from September 2004 (in …
Lynne Kiesling There’s an interesting Slashdot thread today about EPRI’s offshore wave power demonstration project. What’s interesting to me about the thread is not just the feasibility report, but the information about various other “green energy” technologies that is contained in the comments. This commenter points out that all of those appliances that we take …
Michael Giberson What?s the difference between deodorants and antiperspirants, that makes antiperspirants regulated by the FDA as an over-the-counter drug, while deodorants are not? That is just one of the questions answered in Cindy Skrzycki?s ?The Regulators? column in this morning?s Washington Post: ?Antiperspirant Makers Sweat Out FDA’s Data Request.? Skrzycki?s weekly column provides an …
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Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Wilde has this wonderful and annoying tendency to articulate things about which I have been ruminating before I have fully formed my ideas. In this post he does so about Neal Stephenson’s “radical libertarian views … he writes about libertarian themes – technological empowerment, data havens, free banking, polycentric law, anonymous digital …
Lynne Kiesling Happy vestigial-holiday-of-romance to one and all (sorry, I’m not particularly sentimental). Around the KP house Valentine’s Day is an excuse to eat better quality chocolate than we usually do. As in most of the past 8 years, this year it’s Chicago’s own Vosges Haut Chocolat. The brain child of two women, one of …
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