This is not an existential question, but rather an opening to discuss my recent sporadic posting. I spent the weekend at a Liberty Fund conference on constitutionalism directed by my good friend Georg Vanberg. It was a real treat to think about and discuss issues of constitutionalism with some of the most esteemed political scientists …
The states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have won an Ohio court ruling that Ohio Edison, a First Energy company, violated the Clean Air Act. How did they do so? By making improvements that, the decision finds, nullified their being grandfathered out of new source review. The suits against Ohio Edison, a subsidiary …
I love the header in this Economist (subscription) article on the proposed French government subsidy of Alstom: The French, it seems, have no word for laissez-faire. Beautiful!
On Monday Tech Central Station ran a good article by Terry Barnich, a fellow Chicagoan and also a former utility regulator. Barnich is in a good position to analyze the current natural gas situation and make recommendations: State utility regulators, working cooperatively with electric power producers can accelerate the displacement of older, less efficient power …
According to this Business Week article, we are getting national cellphone number portability in November. The article predicts price cuts and a marketing frenzy in December. The number portability progression is an interesting case study in the formation and definition of new property, and new property rights. Back in the bad old Ma Bell black …
Frontpage Magazine has reprinted a WSJ opinion piece from Wednesday by Steve Haber, Doug North, and Barry Weingast entitled “If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor?” (although the first clause of the title does not appear on the Frontpage site, more’s the pity). This piece is a succinct statement of the problems …
Frontpage Magazine has reprinted a WSJ opinion piece from Wednesday by Steve Haber, Doug North, and Barry Weingast entitled “If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor?” (although the first clause of the title does not appear on the Frontpage site, more’s the pity). This piece is a succinct statement of the problems …
Frontpage Magazine has reprinted a WSJ opinion piece from Wednesday by Steve Haber, Doug North, and Barry Weingast entitled “If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor?” (although the first clause of the title does not appear on the Frontpage site, more’s the pity). This piece is a succinct statement of the problems …
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