Lynne Kiesling Everyone’s talking about eBay’s 10th anniversary. NPR is running a series of stories on Morning Edition. The Economist’s print edition this week has a cover article on eBay, with clever art: Much of the analysis focuses on the lessons to learn from eBay’s success. The Economist article put it succinctly: To succeed, firms …
Lynne Kiesling John Moser has tagged me with the bibliophile meme (and he did so on a good day, as I am feeling contemplative): 1. How many books do I own? I estimate 1000, split between home and work pretty evenly and not counting the 500 or so additional books contributed by the KP Spouse. …
Lynne Kiesling So last night I ended up at the main BBC page, and the lead story and picture was of the England women’s soccer team. Right now the Euro 2005 Women’s Championship is going on, with England v. Denmark today (go England!). This is another great reason to love the Internet. I had no …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s Google logo is a cool montage of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Check it out.
Lynne Kiesling One of the focal discussion topics at the Center for Advancement of Energy Markets convention was how to articulate the benefits of competition. Competition has been absent from the electricity industry since 1907, when the first states established public utility commissions and began granting monopolies to utilities in retorn for their obligation to …
Lynne Kiesling The radio silence here is a result of my being at the convention for supporters of energy markets sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. Yesterday was a full day of speakers, all of whom were styled “energy market enthusiasts”, topped off with a banquet. We talked a lot yesterday …
Lynne Kiesling Today is chock full of interesting stuff in the day jobs, so I leave you all heading in to the weekend with this lovely shot from the KP garden: I planted three peony bushes last summer, and they are just bloomin’ gorgeous now! Finally. I feel like I’ve been waiting for them to …
Lynne Kiesling Randall Parker has one of his typically lucid and informative posts on the oxytocin and trust research to which I pointed yesterday. Note also that his focus, and the focus of his commenters, is unlike mine in that it’s much more on how to use this research to come up with new drugs, …
Lynne Kiesling I find this post from Michael Totten and its associated comments particularly helpful for contextualizing the French and Dutch EU Constitution votes. The reminders in the comments about the distinctions between common law constitutions and civil law constitutions were particularly useful. More later, back to work …
Lynne Kiesling Gee, it’s not often that experimental economics hits the headlines, but here it is … according to this New York Times science article, today’s Nature has an article describing research by economists Ernst Fehr, Paul Zak, and others on the hormone oxytocin: In the study, the Swiss researchers had 178 male college students …
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