Lynne Kiesling On Thursday President-elect Obama named law professor Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an executive-branch office with the mission of analyzing and coordinating federal regulation. Most recently, Sunstein is known for his work with Richard Thaler on “choice architecture” and behavioral public policy, including their book Nudge. Others …
Lynne Kiesling EcoGeek has a list of green cars being debuted at the Detroit auto show, and it’s longer than you might think, with more manufacturers (US and foreign) than expected.
Lynne Kiesling Very interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal about BYD, a Chinese firm manufacturing electric vehicles. One of the most interesting points in this article: despite the global economic downturn, BYD is increasing its operations, first in China and then planned for US and Europe, because entry barriers are lower in the electric …
Lynne Kiesling I have one thing to say today: GO STEELERS! I will be sportin’ my black and gold swag at home today, and watching the game. I like watching the Steelers, but I have to admit that the thing I really like most about watching the Steelers is seeing the cityscape photography of Pittsburgh …
Lynne Kiesling A couple of nifty food notes have crossed my path today. First, an incredibly handy list of places to find duck fat french fries around the US, including the fabulous Hot Doug’s in Roscoe Village in Chicago. Yummmmm, encased meats! Interestingly, the hat tip for this article goes to John Hodgman’s Twitter feed. …
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Lynne Kiesling Right now NPR is running an excellent story on ITQs (individual transferable quotas) in fishing. Will post the link when it’s live. UPDATE: Here’s the link to the transcript and the audio. From the transcript, check out this good discussion of ITQs: Randy Smith’s share of the catch didn’t increase as much as …
Lynne Kiesling Run, don’t walk, to Marginal Revolution and read Alex’s post today on smart grid investments. I’ll have more to say on this point later, but I have a date with a stationary bike and a swim pool that I must keep.
Lynne Kiesling Is anyone really surprised that Russia is stopping natural gas shipments to Ukraine and the EU? They did the same thing three years ago, in a cold spell. They used the same rhetoric, saying that Ukraine was at fault for stopping the flow of gas to the EU via the pipeline that runs …
Lynne Kiesling [Note: FTW=for the win, for those of you who don’t waste your time in the jargon of the tubez of the Interwebz.-ed.] I am glad to hear that the big buzz from the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 is induction chargers for electronic devices. Wikipedia’s got a nice explanation of inductive charging if you …
Lynne Kiesling Welcome Master Resource to the party! It’s a free-market energy blog with a decidedly Julian Simon-esque flavor, so I think these will be welcome online voices in our upcoming energy policy discussions. And thanks to Steve Horwitz for the pointer, and his kinds words about Knowledge Problem.
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