Lynne Kiesling So last week in Pittsburgh Mike and I went to dinner at the Church Brew Works, a brewpub in a “decommissioned” Catholic church. Good food, good beer, and good company. In the course of our conversation, I joked to Mike about being a pagan, so he emailed me this morning to ask how …
Lynne Kiesling Please go read Brad DeLong’s post on taking Adam Smith out of context. Now. All of his points are well taken. I would only add two things. People who like to take Adam Smith out of context and caricature his thought have not read or thought carefully enough about Smith’s Theory of Moral …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve always conceived of and pitched KP as an academic and professional outlet … but woman does not live by economics alone! I have opined before here about why I knit, but I haven’t explicitly “knitblogged”. Seeing as this is a pretty low-key pre-Christmas week, why not? Here’s my most recent finished object, …
Lynne Kiesling Ever since returning from the CMU conference I’ve been pondering the ideas that Mike discussed in his previous post. Conceptually, there’s a big tension that is at the core of these discussions: does command-and-control centralization to reduce transaction costs work? Here’s the issue, I think. The SMD proposal(s) establish centralized platforms, RTOs, in …
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Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel reviewed David Hackett Fischer’s new book, Liberty and Freedom, in the New York Times on Sunday (registration required). Her review, nuanced and not particularly favorable, whets my appetite to read it. Fischer is apparently focusing on iconography in this book, and exploring the historic distinction between concepts of liberty and freedom …
Lynne Kiesling Am geekily blogging the Carnegie Mellon transmission and distribution conference today … this morning saw one fascinating presentation from Kurt Yeager, CEO of EPRI, titled “A Bold Visions for Transmission and Distribution”. Yeager starts from the point that we are experiencing fundamental transformation and disruptive change, especially technological change. Yet the pace of …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I said toodle pip, but this is too good … the Scotsman had an article today about Scottish bands that aren’t really Scottish (registration required), including two of my favorite bands: Lloyd Cole In so many ways, he is the archetypal Glaswegian. Rattlesnakes was the perfect west-end Glasgow record, and not just …
Lynne Kiesling As mentioned last week, both Mike and I will be at a conference this week, so posting is likely to be light unless something gets in one of our craws, so to speak. I recommend checking out Stumbling and Mumbling, a new-to-me economics blog (thanks to Newmark’s Door for the tip). His insights …
Lynne Kiesling In Sunday’s Telegraph Bjorn Lomborg had a commentary on climate change policy that is well worth a careful read and consideration. Global warming has become the obsession of our time. From governments and campaigners meeting for the climate summit in Buenos Aires right now we hear the incessant admonition: making global warming our …
Lynne Kiesling One of Bonny Doon’s missions in the Ca’ Del Solo line is to showcase underappreciated grapes. Malvasia Bianca is one such grape. It is dry, dry, dry, with a flavor of succulent but not lush or sweet fruits. It had a nice orange blossom nose that complemented the bone-dry flavor. The flavor also …
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