Chicagoboyz also has a post on the TotalFinaElf/Iraq oil connection, featuring the NY Times article that shows some even deeper connections than previously known.
May 2003
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed The World
Tomorrow I start the section of my economic history class that covers the industrial revolution, so this Chicago Boyz post is exceedingly timely. They recommend Jane Uglow’s book, The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, in which she analyzes the intellectually fertile friendship of Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley, James Watt, Matthew Boulton, …
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The Senate Energy Bill
Tom Lenard at the Progress and Freedom Foundation has analyzed the proposed Senate energy bill, S.14, and he has found it wanting. In the title he calls it a disappointment, which I consider an understatement. It’s full of money for all sorts of research, including the kind of technology commercialization research that should not be …
How To Privatize Iraq’s Oil Assets
Well, if I’m going to get beaten to the punch on an essay I’ve been incubating for a couple of weeks, at least it’s by Susan Lee. Her Wall Street Journal editorial from Wednesday (subscription required) does a superb job of addressing the “how and why” of Iraqi oil privatization. She also does a great …
Sen’s Paretian Liberal Paradox
I was absolutely tickled to find a discussion on Brad DeLong’s site and Robert Waldman’s site about Sen’s seminal article on the impossibility of a Paretian liberal (that’s small-l classical liberal). Takes me back to my undergraduate days, when I had a superb economics honors seminar with the irrepresible and ever-stimulating Dennis Sullivan, one of …
The US Department of Energy has released projections of energy use through 2025. Take these projections with a grain of salt, knowing that they do not, and cannot, incorporate the dynamic changes and adaptations that are likely to occur as prices and technologies (for both production and consumption) change over the next 20 years. Still, …
The US Department of Energy has released projections of energy use through 2025. Take these projections with a grain of salt, knowing that they do not, and cannot, incorporate the dynamic changes and adaptations that are likely to occur as prices and technologies (for both production and consumption) change over the next 20 years. Still, …
The US Department of Energy has released projections of energy use through 2025. Take these projections with a grain of salt, knowing that they do not, and cannot, incorporate the dynamic changes and adaptations that are likely to occur as prices and technologies (for both production and consumption) change over the next 20 years. Still, …
The US Department of Energy has released projections of energy use through 2025. Take these projections with a grain of salt, knowing that they do not, and cannot, incorporate the dynamic changes and adaptations that are likely to occur as prices and technologies (for both production and consumption) change over the next 20 years. Still, …