Lynne Kiesling It’s been too long since we’ve done any decent music recs here at KP, and last Sunday’s release of The National’s new album High Violet is a good reason to do one now. I’ve heard a couple of songs from it, including “Bloodbuzz Ohio” that they are offering as a free download, and …
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Lynne Kiesling … he just doesn’t realize it, or doesn’t know that it’s an established regulatory concept. Recently in his Undercover Economist blog, Tim Harford picked up on an idea floated by another FT columnist: … we need tariff schemes that encourage conservation. One option is “reverse pricing”, a simple framework that would increase the …
Lynne Kiesling I noticed recently that Steve Levitt opined briefly on the health care bill in ways that are consistent with my earlier argument that unless Congress tackled the third-party payer problem head on they would be wasting our time and money. In his Freakonomics post, Levitt recommends Gary Becker’s analysis to us: In Becker’s …
Lynne Kiesling We were in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend and early this week and, not surprisingly, the airwaves were full of news of a new ad campaign to rehabilitate ethanol and, in the words of one of the news stories we heard, “correct myths about ethanol”. So are they saying that it’s a myth …
Lynne Kiesling Last week I was honored to spend a couple of days at St. Lawrence University with Steve Horwitz and his students and colleagues. In addition to giving a talk on regulation and technological change in the electricity industry, I gave a guest lecture in an environmental economics class and participated in a reading …
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Lynne Kiesling If you are currently working as a state regulator or a member of regulatory staff, then I cannot encourage you strongly enough to apply to attend this May’s Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics: The IRLE is sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Silicon Flatirons Center to sharpen the tools required for principled …
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Lynne Kiesling Hey students! If you are a KP reader and you are looking for an experience this summer with good brain candy that’s a lot of fun, then check out the week-long summer seminars offered by the Institute for Humane Studies. There are a range of topics and focus areas, but most seminars involve …
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Lynne Kiesling If you are in Washington, DC and interested in electricity policy, then I hope I will see you at this upcoming event at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday afternoon. Why is the process of restructuring and institutional change so different in electricity than in other infrastructure industries? What is the current status …
Lynne Kiesling Hi folks! I am getting ready to crawl out from under my winter quarter rock; I have been teaching three classes this quarter, and it’s been frenetically busy. I’m also working on some stuff that I’m not quite ready to talk about in public, so I’ve been indulging in some self censoring. Plus, …
Lynne Kiesling This weekend the KP Spouse and I headed six hours north into northwest Wisconsin and joined a cabin-full of friends in the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race, although my pace was not so racelike! We did the half distance (the Kortelopet), which is 23km (14.26 miles), classic style (i.e., not the skate style …
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