Lynne Kiesling This weekend marks the two-year anniversary of the Northeast blackout. Today the Wall Street Journal has published a commentary from my colleague Vernon Smith that reflects on the state of electricity restructuring. One main theme of his commentary is that our failure to separate the energy commodity transaction from the wires transaction has …
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Lynne Kiesling There’s a rumor circulating that Comcast and the National Hockey League are on the verge of a broadcast agreement. The purported deal would involve two games per week on OLN. It’s not clear what other games would be allowed to be televised, although there is another outstanding agreement with NBC for some games …
Lynne Kiesling Last week Rob at Peak Oil Optimist commented on an environmental group’s position on the construction of an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant in the Pacific Northwest. They contend that the technology is just not needed because of other available means of renewable power and demand reduction. Rob correctly and nicely …
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Lynne Kiesling It came out while I was at a conference and distracted, but here’s this month’s New Energy Currents from John Atkinson at Winds of Change. If you are interested in energy technology and policy, this is a must read. And thanks to John for the links here!
Lynne Kiesling This item has been sitting open on my desktop for a few days … I enjoy reading Jonathan Schwartz’s blog, and he recently had a post in which he discussed what it means to be a commodity. See also his post from July 2004 on commodification that he links therein. Andrew Morton (of …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re in a Smithian place here at KP, Grant McCracken’s post on the paucity of strong Canadian brands is comment-provoking. Grant poses Wealth of Nations as a theme (and indeed as the title of the post), so I will throw out some Smithian ideas. Specialization. If you have a neighbor who is …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve got nothing more to say about the energy bill that I haven’t already said, and others have also said it better. It’s big, it’s wasteful, it’s got corporate welfare and farm bill written all over it, it induces people to buy cars that Toyota and Honda can’t keep in stock already because …
Lynne Kiesling I spent last week attending Liberty Fund’s annual Adam Smith conference, as one of the two discussion leaders. It was a total blast. But it’s hard to summarize, or to draw out some of the more salient new knowledge that came out of it. We had a very interdisciplinary crowd, replete with philosophers, …
Lynne Kiesling So what, you say? It amounts to the deregulation of DSL, through the vehicle of saying that phone companies no longer have to share their phone lines with competitors. It puts DSL on more equal regulatory footing with cable, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Brand X decision earlier this year that …
Lynne Kiesling I spent last weekend attending a Liberty Fund conference on themes of liberty and responsibility in the writings of Charles Darwin. We read selections from The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, and Darwin’s autobiography. It was a fascinating opportunity to learn about Darwin’s …
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