Kudos to Craig Newmark for picking up on a story that I think is really, really important: running fiber optic cable through natural gas pipelines. The cable can be inserted into a tube placed inside existing underground gas lines serving homes and businesses by cutting “small incisions in the streets,” Peevey said. Think about it: …
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As of last Wednesday, I am now working with Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith’s Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University. I will be the Director of a new Applied Energy Research Program at ICES. Through this program we plan to expand the use of experimental economic research in the establishment and implementation …
While you are at TCS, do also read Arnold Kling’s open letter to Paul Krugman. I find his distinction between consequence-based arguments and motive-based arguments very important and persuasive. I have always found motive-based arguments to be cheap, shoddy and unpersuasive, and as usual Arnold hits the nail on the head. What’s also interesting is …
Some time last week my husband came home from work with a gleeful grin, and with a flourish he whipped out Neal Stephenson’s new book Quicksilver. I had known it was out for a week or so before (because I read Intapundit), and figured I’d get it for him for his birthday. Oh well … …
I am thrilled, absolutely thrilled, to find out from Tyler Cowen this morning that Al Lowi’s and Clyde Wayne Crews’s chapter on electricity is available online (and many thanks to Dan Klein for doing so). I recommend it to you all. This chapter is from Dan Klein’s and Fred Foldvary’s book, The Half-Life of Policy …
This Christian Science Monitor editorial from Thursday lays out the natural gas supply issues in the US very clearly. Note that it mentions that a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in San Francisco has been voted down. Such votes will lead to the persistence of high, and volatile, natural gas prices into the future.
Tyler Cowen has a nice post on the economics of classical music. I think he’s right, and that the success of classical music rests on philanthropist attention and on satellite radio. I also think that popular, charismatic, virtuoso performers will contribute to classical music’s fate, by their presence or absence. Wynton Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma …
How exciting is this? Notwithstanding Eric Zorn’s cranky bile saying that we should chill, the Cubs winning the NLDS is wonderful. This article gives some indication of how exhilirating the win is for fans old and young. Eric’s wrong because this is the first time since 1945 that we have won a playoff series. The …
This interesting Baltimore Sun commentary by David Quayat highlights some of the economic and social problems seen in history in countries that rely on oil for their economic strength. Given what we’ve seen, especially in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, his cautions are worth serious consideration.
Here’s a more extensive set of links to the articles I mentioned below. An Experimental Mind Having shaken the ivory tower and reshaped big government, Vernon Smith’s ideas are revolutionizing business By Rana Foroohar Give All Iraqis a Share Auctions of state wealth go back to Rome, but no one has ever done it fairly. …
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