Wow, Tech Central Station is totally kicking butt in the content department in the past week! I’ll have more to say on this after lunch, but just go fish around there. Very good stuff.
April 2003
Will California Create Value Through Customer Choice? New York is a Role Model
The past week has seen a few interesting developments related to electricity deregulation, and I found the juxtaposition of them interesting. They further reinforce the reasons for customer choice and retail deregulation in electricity. First, the denouement of the California electricity crisis continues on, with the California legislature facing two opposing pieces of legislation concerning …
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Free-market Environmentalism And Fish Populations
One of the most important insights of the past 30 years is how property rights definition over natural resources can align economic and environmental incentives. If you own something, you have the right to its future use, and to alienate (sell, trade, give away) that right. Note the phrase “future use”. This is really important …
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Free-market Environmentalism And The Restoration Of Mesopotamian Marshes
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for posting on this San Francisco Chronicle article on Iraq’s wetlands. The article explains how Saddam Hussein’s regime led to the destruction of wetlands that have been a source of habitat, shelter and food for millennia: Located at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near Basra, this vast watery …
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Drilling For Oil And Gas On Blm Land
According to Rigzone news, the Bureau of Land Management is revising its application and permitting process for drilling on BLM land: As part of its implementation of President Bush’s National Energy Policy and to enhance U.S. energy security, the Bureau of Land Management announced fundamental new management strategies aimed at improving the Agency’s processing of …
Apple/vivendi Commentary
Here’s an analysis from TheStreet.com of an Apple purchase of Universal Music. He’s very skeptical, and points to much recent experience to suggest that such a move would be incredibly risky. And Apple’s denying it anyway.
Many thanks to Megan McArdle for introducing us to Mimeograph, a new arts and culture ‘zine. Her article on stretching chicken out to get good, cheap meals is engaging and a fun read. In her comments on dining out with friends who are similarly impecunious, I particularly like her observation that dining with people who …
Many thanks to Megan McArdle for introducing us to Mimeograph, a new arts and culture ‘zine. Her article on stretching chicken out to get good, cheap meals is engaging and a fun read. In her comments on dining out with friends who are similarly impecunious, I particularly like her observation that dining with people who …