Lynne Kiesling Back in Paris after three days in Grenoble working with co-authors C?line and Dean on a very fun experimental project. Grenoble is beautifully situated in a valley between three mountain ranges, and we had a blast. The KP Spouse got to be Nature Boy and do some hiking while we worked, and we …
Lynne Kiesling On Friday Arnold Kling went public with a little email chat that he, Randall Parker and I were having about strategies for managing nuclear power plant risks. The Price-Anderson Act is a controversial piece of law that limits the liability of nuclear power companies, essentially acting as a federal insurance subsidy to the …
Lynne Kiesling Ray Gifford alerts us to a new blog from NY Post editorial writer Robert George. It’s called Ragged Thots. Robert seems to share my enjoyment of wordplay and language (and sports), but also seems to enjoy writing about politics, which I do not. So, the benefits of product differentiation … although I am …
Lynne Kiesling Chicagoist has a couple of good posts up right now, including this one on chef Charlie Socher, whose Caf? Matou is in the regular KP rotation. Socher has a new restaurant in Lincoln Square, Charlie’s on Leavitt, that will be on the short list to try when I get home. They also link …
Lynne Kiesling Dave at No Illusions has a follow-on post to my recent post on German economic regulation. He offers further examples, and they don’t make me any more sanguine.
Lynne Kiesling David Farrer at Freedom and Whisky (two of my favorite things!) has written some good posts over the past week about the upcoming UK elections. His most recent post on the subject highlights the divide between small-l-liberals and conservatives on social policy, and between small-l-liberals and Labour and Liberal Democrats on economic policy. …
Lynne Kiesling One thing I forgot to mention in my post about Hamburg’s Fischmarkt is how heavily regulated it is. Not in terms of prices, but in terms of opening times. This is a prevalent form of regulation in Germany. The Fischmarkt opens at 6 AM Sunday, and at 9:30 a bell starts to ring, …
Lynne Kiesling We here at KP are a bit in the futurist optimist vein, so we pay attention to fuel cell technologies. One of my personal favorites is work to commercialize small methanol cartridges for use in phones, PDAs, and other small devices. So my instant thought when I saw this article on the development …
Lynne Kiesling As a hostess gift I took a box of incredible Patrick Roger on the Boulevard St. Germain. This is some of the most amazing chocolate I have ever had in my life (and, as a chocolate connoisseur who lives in the hometown of Vosges Haut Chocolat and consumes it on a regular basis). …
Lynne Kiesling I visited old friends in Hamburg over the weekend. On Sunday morning we went down to the Fischmarkt, the traditional old fish market in the harbor. Hamburg has a long history of prosperity from the fishing industry and from shipping; it was notably one of the cities with merchant associations most prosperously involved …
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