Lynne Kiesling In the comments to my recent post on high heels, dmoss asked when high-heeled shoes became fashionable for women. I seem to recall some archeological evidence of high heels in Egyptian culture, but I can’t document it. I did, however, find a link to shoe research and shoe museums, with some documentation of …
Lynne Kiesling Micha Ghertner had a post commenting on the programmer who outsourced his own job to India. This is a great example of the value creation of mutually beneficial arrangements. It’s so great, in fact, that it reminds me of one of the canonical examples of such ingeneuity, from Adam Smith: But in consequence …
Lynne Kiesling This cute article from Sunday’s Washington Post is an overview of the depth and variety with which we’ve been experiencing our love of Jane Austen, at least for the past century. For the most recent upsurge the author credits Colin Firth’s portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 BBC production. While I am …
Lynne Kiesling Eric Helland, guest-blogging over at Marginal Revolution, posts on whether or not GPS is a good candidate as a public good. Like Eric’s colleague, I grapple with the public good concept (as Mike mentioned earlier this morning) and share the misgivings Eric reports. For me the question boils down to the degree of …
Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel had links late last week to a couple of stories that are near and dear to my soul, I mean, soles: women’s footwear. Now, as anyone who knows me personally knows, in my simplified Principles-of-Economics utility function, there are two goods: shoes and yarn. Sometimes it’s shoes and pizza, but usually …
Lynne Kiesling Todd Zywicki’s return to private life includes an eight-part series of posts on the legal history of wine shipment regulation and interstate commerce in the U.S. over at The Volokh Conspiracy. As a public service, and to increase the probability of more people reading Todd’s wonderful and illuminating analysis, here are the links …
Lynne Kiesling You will note in the left margin that the final step of officialdom has occurred — Mike now has a KP email address. Kinda like the 21st century version of Steve Martin in “The Jerk” when he sees his name in the phone book … not that Mike isn’t someone unless he has …
Lynne Kiesling As if I don’t have enough regulatory reasons to want to bang my head against the wall … Iain Murray’s recent post over at The Commons about Pierce’s Disease, and how the EPA’s overbearing regulation of gene-spliced plants reduces the genetic resistance of the vines, is utterly appalling. This is a ridiculous regulation …
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Lynne Kiesling As I mentioned earlier, I have been thinking about status quo bias and policy change. So I was primed to be looking for things even when in leisure reading mode, apparently. I was cruising around and ended up at Sand in the Gears, where in a recent post Tony Woodlief points out two …
Lynne Kiesling I am enjoying the new Technology Liberation Front blog, with pithy comments from many notable technology and Internet analysts. Although I note a distinct absence of energy technology analysts in their realm , not that I’m biased or anything … And if you’re wondering at my title to this post, I refer you …
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