Lynne Kiesling This post over at Manolo’s place shows a picture of Martha Stewart leaving confinement in the women’s prison in West Virginia. She is wearing an almost-boho poncho. I know that prison has an extensive knitting program for the inmates, and one of my friends who lives in the region donates her excess yarn …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Jonathan Adler for his recent post on a new paper on integrated river basin management. The paper, by William Blomquist (IUPUI), Ken Calbick and Ariel Dinar (both of World Bank), is available at SSRN. I have not yet read it, but it looks like an interesting analysis of a set of …
Lynne Kiesling I am pleased to announce my new-and-improved Northwestern faculty web page, designed by NU student Lauren Holliday. This page will have syllabi for my classes, copies of working papers, and other such things. I love the clean, elegant design that Lauren created. Unbeknownst to her, in developing the graphics for it she hit …
Lynne Kiesling Refined product prices hit a peak today, as did oil prices, according to Bloomberg. This is the time of year when refiners switch over from producing winter fuel to summer fuel, and have to start the complicated and costly process of depleting winter stocks in their tanks. Fires at refiners don’t help either.
Lynne Kiesling I highly recommend Arnold Kling’s Tech Central Station article today on the implications of the very mathematical methodology of modern economics. Arnold’s article is inspired by this recent Cato Journal article from Dartmouth economist Meir Kohn, which I also recommend to you. Actually, I have to say that I find Kohn’s paper to …
Lynne Kiesling Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal had an installment in its regular series called “The Cranky Consumer”, in which one of the WSJ writers goes out into the market and reports on the consumer experience. Tuesday’s installment was written by Rebecca Smith, the Journal’s regular electricity writer and one of the best energy journalists around. …
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Lynne Kiesling In my previous “thinking out loud” post on institutional change, I ended with this question: Institutional change is in many ways itself a constructivist exercise. Is there a way to make the process of institutional change more organic, and thus more likely to lead to “valuable, meaningful, forward-looking, robust, evolutionarily adaptive institutional change”? …
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Lynne Kiesling Over at Truck and Barter Ian cook has a post on a new nanotech solar achievement. This company claims to have used nanotech’s self-organizing properties to get the cost of generating power using solar energy to 5 cents per kilowatt hour. I hope that this breakthrough is robust. Another solar nanotech entrepreneur is …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t read or link to Technology Liberation Front frequently enough. I typically find that the authors there make arguments similar to ones I would make, and do so with more eloquence and expertise. Take, for example, this recent post from Adam Thierer on telecom mergers, which provides some useful analysis of why …
Lynne Kiesling I follow in the footsteps of the super-fantastic Manolo and Ann Althouse to agree that it’s incredibly refreshing to see authoritative women like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dressing in a fashionable, complex, not-safe-and-blend-into-the-background manner. And as a fellow knee-high boot afficionado (and athlete), I sense a kindred spirit there … I think …
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