Lynne Kiesling I am off to my old stomping grounds for a few days of KP Spouse family reunion, and seeing some of my old colleagues and friends. To plant a seed for discussion upon my return, here’s an event that I’ve been thinking about a lot in the past few days: Lala, which started …
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Lynne Kiesling Through my various wanderings in the past week I have come across two fun little shopping-oriented sites that I like: Little Splurge, which highlights little (and no-so-little) finds for fashion, home, travel, work, etc; and Paperclippy, focusing on office-friendly fashion finds. These two cute sites are great examples of Internet filtering; there’s so …
Lynne Kiesling On Friday another retail electricity rate increase took effect in Maryland, bringing the total increase in retail rates since the removal of price caps to 70 percent. This increase has occurred during a time when natural gas prices have risen by almost 100 percent, so the cost of generating power (particularly peak hour …
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Lynne Kiesling The other day Greg Mankiw noted that New York has passed a law ending limits on prices that ticket scalpers can charge. I wish Governor Spitzer were as pro-competition in electricity markets as he is in event ticket markets … although in the grand scheme of things, New York’s retail competition is more …
Michael Giberson [PREAMBLE: This post is a follow-up to Lynne’s recent post, “Reconciling A Hayekian/Organic Approach With ‘Designing’ Markets.” If you haven’t already read it, I recommend reading it first. Otherwise, when I get to the part of my post where I say, “I liked D. F. Linton’s question and I liked Lynne’s answer, too,” …
Lynne Kiesling Then on Sunday the KP Spouse and I did the McHenry County Bicycle Club’s Udder Century Invitational with a friend of ours. We did the metric century, 62 miles, which was plenty after my triathlon exertions on the previous day. McHenry County has lots of lovely, rolling countryside, and great biking roads. The …
Lynne Kiesling We had a sporty weekend here in KP land … on Saturday I participated in the Tri-Shark sprint triathlon outside of Bloomington, Illinois. Here’s an action shot: The race is well-organized and the course is beautiful; Dawson Lake in Moraine View State Park is great for swimming, the bike course has some lovely …
Lynne Kiesling In the comments to my carbon market post from Friday, D. F. Linton asks this very good question: How does one invoke Hayek in one breath and the speak of “designing” a market in the next while keeping a straight face? Good question, and one I struggle with every day as an economist …
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Michael Giberson Last week, a Dutch “reality” show was announced in which three patients in need of a kidney transplant would compete to acquire a kidney to be given by a living donor. The proposal generated a storm of commentary, for and against, only to be revealed as a hoax of sorts, a publicity stunt …
Michael Giberson Via the Associated Press and San Diego Union-Tribune: PHOENIX – Saying they won’t hurt Arizona utility customers to benefit Californians, [Arizona] state regulators on Wednesday rejected a utility’s plan to build a $581 million cross-desert power transmission line to carry electricity generated at plants in Arizona to customers in California. In an essay, …
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