Lynne Kiesling As you’ve by now inferred, we’ve made the exec-you-tee-vo decision to change to Title Case on titles at KP. Many thanks for the input I got from several of you, public and otherwise. I think what swung the decision was the ability to reserve all caps for times when we want the emphasis, …
Lynne Kiesling In his last column in Technology Review in December 2004, Michael Schrage talked about the importance of the diffusion of innovation. He made a lot of very trenchant observations, including The challenge for policymakers and populations alike is how to cope with the pervasive-and perverse-consequences of ever more people gaining access to ever …
Lynne Kiesling While I’m digressing, let me ask y’all a style question: are the all caps titles OK, or jarring? Should we switch to Title Case? all lower case (I’m not serious about that one)? I’ve noticed that when I see the all caps titles in RSS feeds they stand out, and I’m not sure …
Lynne Kiesling That is how much I like him, that I am willing to break from KP title protocol … I’m putting the whimsically allegorical poem that Kurt Elling read on Wednesday after the cut, if you are interested. Here’s the first stanza as a teaser: here is little Effie’s head whose brains are made …
Lynne Kiesling It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been this tired on a Friday afternoon. First week of classes, working on a project with a short timeframe, not enough exercise, and two fun back-to-back music events. The later one, Wednesday, was our standing visit to the Green Mill to hear The Kurt Elling …
Lynne Kiesling I am teaching environmental economics this fall, and Tuesday was our first day of class. As I have structured the class, it focuses on common-pool resource allocation decisions. So I typically start the class with the example of a river, which I draw on the board. I ask students to name the different …
Lynne Kiesling Many thanks to jeffrey.d for alerting me to the letter signed by eight governors asking for a federal gasoline pricing probe, and possible refunds of “excess profits” (remind me to add that to the list of economic non-concepts, right behind “price gouging” and “windfall profits”). The WaPo article mentions a study by Don …
Lynne Kiesling This morning the Wall Street Journal editorialized about the Porkbusters idea, even going so far as to print the web address at The Truth Laid Bear. Transparency and accountability. If they refuse to do it themselves, we use highly distributed technology to make them. Beautiful.
Lynne Kiesling James Hamilton has done the back of the envelope calculation to show that in the pasat two weeks, gasoline demand has plummeted, both relative to trend and relative to last year. His graph showing the effect is striking. Professor Hamilton points out that this decrease in demand is one of the reasons why …
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Lynne Kiesling Ray Gifford has written an excellent a historical perspective on the property rights and commons debate in the digital sphere. He hearkens back to the Parliamentary enclosure movement of the 18th century in Britain to point out that The private decisions of multiple individuals will deliver an order in the face of uncertainty …
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