Lynne Kiesling Today’s stage 14 was a grueling Pyrenées mountain stage with a thrilling finish, even on online-only coverage. Have to get OLN next year … I won’t give any spoilers for those of you who slept in or are on the left coast. In getting up early this AM I found that Yahoo has …
Lynne Kiesling On the subject of wine … the KP Spouse and I have been members of the wine club at Preston Vineyards in the Dry Creek valley in Sonoma County for a while. Preston is at the way-far north end of the valley; you go to the end of the road, take a right, …
Lynne Kiesling A couple of weeks ago I mentioned pending legislation in New York to legalize interstate wine shipment. Now the news comes that Governor Pataki has signed the legislation into law. At least one state has freed the grapes. Thanks to Todd Zywicki for the pointer. See also Dr. Vino on the topic.
Lynne Kiesling Catching up on my reading … Ray Gifford has a nice post on the role broadband over power lines can play in creating the distributed, interactive, active-demand-enabling, smart and resilient electric power network. BPL potentially has a large role to play in enabling grid-friendly appliances and the customization of electric power service to …
Lynne Kiesling I am enjoying the relatively new Environmental Economics blog. It will be particularly useful in my Environmental Economics course in the fall, especially this post on cost-benefit analysis. It starts with a point that I always go out of my way to demonstrate graphically and mathematically: because of the existence of tradeoffs/opportunity costs, …
Lynne Kiesling This Wired magazine article from July discusses Idealab/Internet impresario Bill Gross’s foray into rooftop solar power innovation. The article does a nice job of discussing the cost disadvantages of solar, some of the infrastructure cost savings from on-site solar that mitigate some of those cost disadvantages, government subsidies, etc.
Lynne Kiesling …this time from Ron Bailey at Reason. He’s discussing a Friends of the Earth report arguing that natural resources are an important part of the story in eradicating poverty in developing countries. All too predictably, a good bit of the report consists of a tiresome standard-issue anti-globalization screed against “neoliberal” economic policies and …
Lynne Kiesling More IHS seminar blogging: Steve Horwitz on James Taylor’s discussion of Mill’s stand on free speech as a discovery process. Free speech is essential to liberty and to the good life because no one has a monopoly on the truth. Nor, would I add, can anyone claim to know the truth in a …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday Russ Roberts caught himself in a mechanistic metaphor for economic activity, talking about how the economy creates jobs as if the economy is a big machine. Yet we know, and Russ explicitly corrects himself to say, that it’s individuals and the combinations of their interactions that leads to job growth: It’s a …
Lynne Kiesling One of the standard topics I discuss in summer workshops and in my environmental economics course is the benefits of tradable emission permits, including cap-and-trade programs such as the EPA’s Acid Rain program (yes, I know it’s not ideal because the cap is bureaucratically determined, but it’s better than the practical alternative, isn’t …
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