Lynne Kiesling As if I don’t have enough regulatory reasons to want to bang my head against the wall … Iain Murray’s recent post over at The Commons about Pierce’s Disease, and how the EPA’s overbearing regulation of gene-spliced plants reduces the genetic resistance of the vines, is utterly appalling. This is a ridiculous regulation …
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Lynne Kiesling As I mentioned earlier, I have been thinking about status quo bias and policy change. So I was primed to be looking for things even when in leisure reading mode, apparently. I was cruising around and ended up at Sand in the Gears, where in a recent post Tony Woodlief points out two …
Lynne Kiesling I am enjoying the new Technology Liberation Front blog, with pithy comments from many notable technology and Internet analysts. Although I note a distinct absence of energy technology analysts in their realm , not that I’m biased or anything … And if you’re wondering at my title to this post, I refer you …
Lynne Kiesling In the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about the problem of status quo bias in the context of achieving meaningful policy change in the electric power industry. If it’s natural for us to prefer the status quo even in the face of beneficial change, how can we overcome those …
Lynne Kiesling Wow, it’s really empowering to look at the activity log and see all of those spam denials. I’ve installed MT-Blacklist and it’s running successfully; I’ve run into some problems in deleting the mounds of spam that had accumulated while I was moving, but it’s down to a manageable problem. I’ve also made my …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a potentially mischievous idea for solving the problem Mike posed — using fingerprinting technology when you sell the drug, say, for example, an RFID tag in each pill’s section of a blister pack that will render it null if opened by someone other than the buyer. Loads of problems with this idea …
Michael Giberson Over at Economic Principals, David Warsh writes about current debates in drug pricing, and raises some excellent questions for researchers interested in economic systems design. About half of Warsh’s column concerns differential pricing, and half concerns alternative ways to organize and pay for research. The problem with differential pricing, what economists typically call …
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Lynne Kiesling This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is at The Frozen North. I’ve been a bad citizen this summer, what with work and house and all, and have not been contributing and advertising as much as I should be. Not surprisingly, I particularly liked Tim Worstall’s post on oil prices. Tim also gives a …
Lynne Kiesling The OED website has a feature that is dangerous for linguaphiles like myself — an email subscription word of the day. I already subscribe to A Word A Day, which I love both for the words and for the epigrams that Anu Garg picks to illustrate usage. But I’m often so crazy busy …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I said we were about more than electricity here, but this is cool: Randall Parker’s post on thin-film superconductor technology that may, in time, make large-scale centeral fossil-fuel generation of electric power obsolete. I also think he’s right, that nuclear would still continue to be able to compete (although there’s a large …
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