Lynne Kiesling I woke up this morning to an email from Tim Worstall, who asked me the following question: how’s your map reading? Stumbling and Mumbling inspires his question by linking to research showing that women have poorer map-reading skills than men, and then asking Is it the case that women economists are better at …
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Lynne Kiesling Daniel Drezner has an great post from yesterday on airline deregulation. In commenting on the NY Times article that he references, Dan notes that … the major airlines are facing a serious financial squeeze, to be sure — but the 2001 post-9/11 government bailout worsened rather than aided their situation. I encourage you …
Lynne Kiesling Kevin Brancato’s post on easyjet and the Basel airport prompts me to offer up this quote from The Wealth of Nations that was in the sections we read for class today: The legislature, were it possible that its deliberations could be always directed, not by the clamorous importunity of partial interests, but by …
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Lynne Kiesling (with helpful ghostwriting from the KP Spouse) This morning breakfast at the KP House involved listening to an NPR interview with Christina Rosen of The New Atlantis, in which she has an article titled The Age of Egocasting. Rosen’s hypothesis is that new technologies like the remote control, TiVo, and the iPod satisfy …
Christina Rosen: Joining Cass Sustein As Modern Nannies? Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Following up on Mike’s post, the Wall Street Journal opined about Powell’s legacy: In fact, Mr. Powell has spent the past four years focused on much more substantive matters regarding the government’s role in overseeing a telecommunications sector that has never been more dynamic. This is Mr. Powell’s proper legacy, and if he …
Lynne Kiesling I am a geek of many stripes — econ geek, shoe geek, yarn geek, and so on. I am also a weather geek. I love the Weather Channel, I love the NOAA website, and above all I love Tom Skilling, Chicago’s most famous weather forecaster. He brings an intellectual fascination to weather forecasting …
Lynne Kiesling While noodling about this morning over my cup of tea, I wandered into some places that I should mention. Some are new to me, some are places I go and just don’t mention. 1. Grant McCracken’s This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology & Economics. One of those funny things, really; I …
Lynne Kiesling Today Wired News has an interesting commentary entitled “Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs”, from Adam Penenberg of the NYU School of Journalism. In addition to his sharing my dislike of the word “blog”, Penenberg shares with me a lot of beliefs and perspectives on how meaningful and valuable this current gale …
Lynne Kiesling I am finding unknown literary treasures in my perusals of web sources related to Pittsburgh, including this A-Z essay entitled “My Mysteries of Pittsburgh” from Stuart O’Nan, a writer. For example, under I: For Isaly’s, an ice cream company with a chain of neighborhood restaurants with soda fountains that have pretty much disappeared. …
Lynne Kiesling There are several ways to commute to Evanston from our house, and none of them is particularly simple or superior to the other. Usually I take the #22 bus 10 blocks down Clark to Belmont, where I catch the Evanston Express train. The KP Spouse, on the other hand, takes the #22 bus …
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