Lynne Kiesling In addition to referencing the work of the ever-insightful Dan Klein, John Tierney’s column from Saturday’s NYT (reg. req.) discusses one of my favorite subjects in great detail: Adam Smith’s analysis of the importance of social distance. He says he could never betray the Jedi because they’re his family, but then the chancellor …
Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel had a really nice post yesterday about how the same good can have different values across time. In this case it’s Diet Coke, and dimensions of differentiation are packaging and temperature, which led Virginia to pay different prices for what, as she calls them, the technocratic economist would perceive as the …
Lynne Kiesling Now that I am home for a couple of weeks I am going to catch up on some things, including Mike’s excellent post on the “naming of names” in electric reliability violations. In that post he notes FERC Chairman Pat Wood drew attention to “naming of names” in the recent quarterly compliance, and …
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Lynne Kiesling Congratulations to the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team, which won this year’s NCAA championship with a perfect 21-0 record! See local news coverage from NU Sports, the Sun-Times and the Tribune. This is the first NCAA title for Northwestern since 1941. Yes, that’s before the last time the Cubs went to the World Series …
Michael Giberson An editorial in today’s Washington Post hints at trouble on the horizon for ethanol. Ethanol has long been the product of Midwestern corn, Washington D.C. style pork, and a questionable environmental heritage, with the middle element of that troika propping up the enterprise. Now, however, the long-awaited “next generation” of ethanol, ethanol produced …
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Michael Giberson Want to know what it is like to run a regional transmission system operator? Well, no matter what you try to do, “there’s always someone who doesn’t like a proposed change.” Van Welie said the criticism comes with the job, which is integral to maintaining the region’s economy and public safety. “I love …
Michael Giberson John Atkinson has posted the May edition of New Energy Currents, his monthly roundup of energy technology and policy commentary found on the web. This post, one of the features at Winds of Change, presents the best scan of energy topics that I’ve seen in blogspace. (Found via the miracle of TrackBack, since …
Michael Giberson You are running low on gas, you know that you will drive past 15 gas stations on your commute home, but you don’t know who has the best price. (Sure, you could have checked prices on the commute to work this morning, but you were jet-lagged, or busy spilling coffee on your newspaper, …
Michael Giberson One view of the Duke-Cinergy merger: The picture is Platts’ Map Highlight of the Week, a series of images that Platts publishes to promote their map and data collections.
Michael Giberson The overall sense of the reviews collected at RottenTomatoes is that Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is the best of the three prequels, with more action, drama, and character development, and fewer soap opera meanderings. Two blurbs from Los Angeles newspaper critics capture the overall sentiment: “Revenge of the …
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