Michael Giberson First ninjas, and now the Gun Owners of America have come out fighting for “net neutrality.” PFF wordslinger Randolph May ably defends open competition against the would-be regulators with a well-aimed long blog post, “Way Off Target.”
Michael Giberson The policy wonks at the Progress and Freedom Foundation have long worked to oppose the creation of overly restrictive “network neutrality” regulations, for example releasing the “The Digital Age Communications Act?s Regulatory Framework and Network Neutrality: A Statement of the DACA Regulatory Framework Working Group” by Randolph May, James Speta, Kyle Dixon, James …
Michael Giberson Peter Singer posts a short piece, “Why pay more for fairness?“, critical of the views of Cato Institute’s Brink Lindsay on Fair Trade coffee. Lindsay responds at Cato@Liberty. Lindsay quotes Singer saying: Pro-market economists don?t object to corporations that blatantly use snob appeal to promote their products…. So why be critical when consumers …
Michael Giberson You have read about prediction markets, maybe you have even participated in one, and now you want to go to the next level. You have an idea for a market, but you don?t know how to make one. Even if you have the technical know how to set up a market, if you …
Lynne Kiesling Stephen Brown and Richard Alm of the Dallas Fed have an Economic Letter on the effects of economic freedom on oil supplies. It’s a very interesting read, with lots of insights. Having oil is one thing. Delivering it to a growing market is another. World economies differ greatly in their capacity to organize …
Lynne Kiesling Welcome to Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss, authors of Organizations and Markets. Looks to be a very interesting read; I have known Peter for a while and enjoyed his work. Peter has a post on market-based management today inspired by the WSJ profile of Charles Koch over the weekend, and citing the seminal …
This Popular Mechanics article on alternative fuels has a lot of good information. It doesn’t completely incorporate the economic costs of, for example, having to transport the ethanol to the point of consumption separate from the gasoline. But it does provide a very thorough analysis of the different fuel technologies that are currently under development. …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall’s Tech Central Station column from yesterday brings together a lot of interesting observations on the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report: By way of background, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN-sponsored organization looking into climate change on our behalves. We had the Third Report …
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Lynne Kiesling Catching up with my reading this morning, I see that Mr. Coyote seeks a big-government supporter as an intern to work on government compliance paperwork: … Frequent readers will know that much of my effort has not been business per se, but completing all the government waste paper needed to start a new …
Michael Giberson Historian Roy Medvedev looked through the files of Stalin’s political prisoners and concluded that 200,000 people were imprisoned for telling jokes, such as this: Three prisoners in the gulag get to talking about why they are there. “I am here because I always got to work five minutes late, and they charged me …
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