Lynne Kiesling One thing I forgot to mention in my post about Hamburg’s Fischmarkt is how heavily regulated it is. Not in terms of prices, but in terms of opening times. This is a prevalent form of regulation in Germany. The Fischmarkt opens at 6 AM Sunday, and at 9:30 a bell starts to ring, …
Lynne Kiesling We here at KP are a bit in the futurist optimist vein, so we pay attention to fuel cell technologies. One of my personal favorites is work to commercialize small methanol cartridges for use in phones, PDAs, and other small devices. So my instant thought when I saw this article on the development …
Lynne Kiesling As a hostess gift I took a box of incredible Patrick Roger on the Boulevard St. Germain. This is some of the most amazing chocolate I have ever had in my life (and, as a chocolate connoisseur who lives in the hometown of Vosges Haut Chocolat and consumes it on a regular basis). …
Lynne Kiesling I visited old friends in Hamburg over the weekend. On Sunday morning we went down to the Fischmarkt, the traditional old fish market in the harbor. Hamburg has a long history of prosperity from the fishing industry and from shipping; it was notably one of the cities with merchant associations most prosperously involved …
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Lynne Kiesling Ooooooh! If only I were better organized. I am going to visit dear friends in Hamburg this weekend, but if I had paid a lick of attention I would have chosen to be in Paris on Sunday for the kickoff of the 103rd Paris-Roubaix, one of the classic bicycle races in all the …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a nice post on energy prices at Macroblog (and he’s even one of my homies, who knew?) that is worth a read. Yes, as he points out, oil importing countries do see the increase in oil prices as an inward shift in their supply curve. But it’s also true that, unlike the …
Lynne Kiesling I have taken advantage of the relative liberty and calm of the past three days to work on an overdue paper with a co-author, to whom I owe my share of the work. The question is this: in a physical network that retains some natural monopoly characteristics while some of the rest of …
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Lynne Kiesling Some of you KP readers may be saying “who’s this Hayek guy that she’s always on about?” Well, yesterday in the course of looking for something else I found (via Google) that Roger Garrison’s entry on Hayek in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (1987) is available online. It’s part biography, part intellectual …
Lynne Kiesling While browsing last evening after dinner I found this interesting discussion at The Morning News about “the French paradox”, largely sparked by the recent publication of Mireille Guiliano’s book French Women Don’t Get Fat. It’s essentially a panel discussion about differences between French and American eating, fitness, and social habits as they involve …
Lynne Kiesling Lest Megan McArdle think that she is the only person missing “House” on Fox while abroad, let me chime in. I enjoy Hugh Laurie immensely in every role he has ever played, the writing on this show is sardonic and good, and Robert Sean Leonard, woof. I’ve always had a hankering for him. …
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