Lynne Kiesling Interesting little conversation going on Truth on the Market … Geoff Manne posts an excerpt from a question to NYT ethicist Randy Cohen from a boy who, seeing a perpetual line for pizza at a recurring school event, goes out and buys a pizza and offers slices to kids at the back of …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to the Manolo for the link to the Shoe Sense, “a feminist shoe blog for the stylish yet sensible woman.” In one post she asks is 45 pairs of shoes too many?. With sport-specific shoes, snow boots, etc., I estimate that I have about 55 pair of footwear, which I do not …
Lynne Kiesling Am I really the first person in my online reading network to notice that Malcolm Gladwell’s got a blog? Yee hah! There are a few people whose trenchant observations make me more productive, and he’s high on the list.
Lynne Kiesling I think it depends on how you measure productivity (yeah, I know that’s a bit of a copout). In a recent Wired article: Sixty percent of workers say they always or frequently feel rushed, but those who feel extremely or very productive dropped to 51 percent from 83 percent in 1994, the research …
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 …
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 …
Lynne Kiesling Courtesy of Londonist, check out the fascinating Digitally Distributed Environments. It’s the blog of Andy Hudson-Smith, from University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. He can take historic information about a city, in this case London, and import it into Google Earth to see how London would look if it still retained …
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.
Lynne Kiesling Sunday’s Dilbert is a funny and accurate send-up of the idea of achieving “energy independence”. Punchline: Oil is a fungible commodity. The capitalist system virtually guarantees that you’ll end up buying the lowest cost oil from source unknown to you. Scott Adams clearly learned more from his econ classes at Amherst than most …
Lynne Kiesling Charles Bremner is the (London) Times Paris correspondent, and he had an interesting post the other day about the economics and culture of French and Australian wine: Australia’s success at selling its supposedly simple-minded wines has now created something of a French-style grape glut around Adelaide, with producers turning out too much plonk …
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