Lynne Kiesling I suppose it’s an indication of how much of a property rights geek I am that Tyler Cowen’s post on Randian Valentine’s rhetoric almost made me fall out of my chair laughing. Condensed version: Your sweetie: “You treat me like property.” You: “Public or private?” Splendid.
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting Wired article on enzymes from microbes and the production of cellulosic ethanol. As a counter to the “gee whiz, isn’t it cool that we can do that?” nature of that article, here’s Kevin Hassett of AEI writing in Bloomberg: Indeed, no matter how expensive fossil fuels become, ethanol will never …
Lynne Kiesling My childhood Steeler hero Lynn Swann is likely to be the Republican candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania in the upcoming election. Swann, a resident of Sewickley Heights (a suburb of Pittsburgh), is statistically tied with incumbent Governor Ed Rendell in a recent poll. An interesting quote from Swann, from the Post article: Swann …
Lynne Kiesling Feeling sporty here at KP … I am happy that the Olympics have begun with women’s hockey, and have been watching as much of it as possible. I have not seen either USA game, although I have seen both Italy games. Italy lost to Canada 16-0 and just this morning lost to Sweden …
Lynne Kiesling Such was the question discussed at the Liberty Fund conference I attended over the weekend. Our discussions ran the gamut of all of the theoretical and practical issues associated with the question, from the extent to which basic science is a public good to the costs of governments trying to pick technology winners …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I’m throwing my knitting lot in with two teams, fair isle knit team and team Chicago: For you non-knitters, here’s the challenge: cast on a new project that stretches your skills during the opening ceremonies, and finish it by the time the Olympics end. My stretch: multi-color fair isle, which I’ve never …
Lynne Kiesling Welcome to Winds of Change readers coming to KP from the Energy Markets and Policies roundup there, and thanks to John for his kind mention. There’s a lot of great content aggregated there, so check it out!
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Ian at Truck and Barter for his pointer to Complexity Blog, from two Michigan graduate students. They are certainly hitting on some topics that overlap with our interests here at KP.
Lynne Kiesling Tyler beat me to mentioning today’s WSJ article on cane-based ethanol in Brazil, so I simply refer you to him and his commenters.
Lynne Kiesling Mike Madison responds to my earlier post on wireless in Pittsburgh’s Market Square. I argue that the businesses would benefit from the wireless, and thus have an incentive to pay for it. Mike responds: The answer is pretty obvious, at least to me: The city, or some public authority, is the right entity …
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