February 2006

Liveblogging Arts Blogging on Npr

Lynne Kiesling I am listening live to Hello Beautiful!, the Sunday morning arts show on WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR station. It’s sometimes frustrating (to a relatively dispassionate economist), but almost always interesting conversation about local art, music, architecture, galleries, etc. The host, Edward Lifson, is currently interviewing Terry Teachout and Laura Dimanski at About Last Night …

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FERC Jettisons Legitimate Business Purposes

Michael Giberson An example of federal bureaucracy run amok? No, it is only FERC revamping their anti-market manipulation rules to accomodate changes brought about by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The old market behavior rules sought to prohibit, among other things, “actions that are without a legitimate business purpose and that are intended to …

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Why So Quiet?

Lynne Kiesling Yeah, things have been quiet here at KP. I have some cool work stuff to discuss, which I’ll start developing. But otherwise my cool work stuff has been insider pool (for example, learning a computer program that I may use to program experimental environments) that is of little general interest and requires little …

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Voluntary Corporate Environmentalism

Lynne Kiesling Reason has a good article on corporate environmentalism from Katherine Mangu-Ward. She highlights lots of very interesting voluntary environmental programs at companies in various types of industries, including fast food and oil. A good read.