Lynne Kiesling There’s a lot going on in world oil markets, as summarized in this Channel News Asia article. China is growing like gangbusters, shifting out demand for oil. Yukos, with a contract to supply them, is under fire from the Russian government (I am suspicious that it’s a case of expropriation on the part …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re linking to PFF posts, I particularly think that more people should consider the ideas that Ray raises in this post on the perils of a naive acceptance of the perfect competition model. The point is the damage done by perfect competition models to the regulatory psyche. There is an unstated supposition …
Lynne Kiesling Reader Robert Schwartz sends a link to a Slashdot thread on alternate fuels. Lots of hydrogen, nuclear, solar discussion. Of the posts I read, though, when people compare the costs of each, no one seemed to correct for/account for the subsidies that different technologies get. For example, there’s lots of folks in there …
Lynne Kiesling I haven’t written much about the house, largely because KP is meant to be primarily a professional outlet, but since it’s been the thing that has consumed most of my emotional energy over the past three months … It’s coming along. This weekend was the first time that I could actually say that …
Lynne Kiesling Over at the Commons, Jonathan Adler has a post linking to this California Air Resources Board report, with evidence indicating that the use of ethanol as a motor fuel increases ozone-forming compounds, and is thus not the clean fuel silver bullet that ethanol supporters would like us all to believe. For more KP …
Lynne Kiesling Both Steven Horwitz and Michael Van Winkle have offered up Hayekian analyses of how distributed communication and information networks create a robust discovery process. They do so in the context of analyzing the recent CBS memo forgery controversy. Both are good reads.
Lynne Kiesling Britain’s Consumers Association has asked the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the reasons why Apple prices iTunes downloads higher in the UK than in either the US or France+Germany. British iTunes customers pay 79 pence ($1.40, or 120 eurocents) per song, while French and German residents pay 67.7 pence ($1.20, or 99 …
Lynne Kiesling One of the things we did in California this weekend was visit some Santa Cruz County wineries: Bonny Doon, David Bruce, Bargetto, and Burrell School Vineyards. The Bonny Doon visit was a fun as you would expect if you are at all familiar with their wines, their bottle labels, and their sense of …
Lynne Kiesling I am in California after having attended the Presidential Banquet of the Economic History Association annual meeting on Saturday night. One of the best things about attending the banquet was catching up with friends, including my friend Simone Wegge, whose research in 19th century migration is highlighted in this profile. Very cool stuff!
Lynne Kiesling One of the downsides of being in California at the moment (and having taken a much needed lie in!) was that Juan Non-Volokh beat me to it in blogging Jadish Baghwati’s WSJ commentary today (subscription required) on Kerry’s “Muddled and Maddening” trade policy. It’s a very good piece.
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