Lynne Kiesling Are you looking to improve your productivity as we swing back into fall? I strongly recommend Evernote, as does the ever-helpful Lifehacker, in this useful post. Evernote is a dynamic, networked storage application, part notepad, part inbox, part storage box. It’s an application you download for local use on your desktop, and it …
Lynne Kiesling James Surowiecki’s Financial Page column in the new New Yorker is an interesting muse on uncertainty. Or, more precisely, on volatility, because his focus is on fluctuations in stock prices, oil prices, other commodity prices, and currency valuations over the past couple of months, and on trying to discern the underlying causes of …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s my cynical, anti-authoritarian link of the day: the mayor of Clayton, California shut down a fruit stand run by two little girls because it was a commercial enterprise in an area not zoned for commerce. Hilariously, the mayor defends the decision to shut down this tiny lesson in capitalism, preferring to make …
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Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel and Kate Coe have started Deep Glamour, which “explores the magic of glamour in its many manifestations, from movies, fashion, and advertising to real estate, politics, and sports.” Today Virginia has an energy-related post, about the visual elegance of wind turbines, and their use in advertising: These images epitomize grace, one …
Lynne Kiesling The latest issue of MIT’s Technology Review has a profile of GridPoint and its founder, Peter Corsell. Peter’s commentary in that issue discusses the importance of applying information technology in the electric power system. There’s also a good video profile, which I recommend to you.
Lynne Kiesling Pandora is a vast online radio resource, with many subscribers who are huge fans of its services. But it may go out of existence in the near future as a consequence of Internet royalty payments: Pandora — practically the poster child for online radio — says it will shut down if royalty rates …
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Lynne Kiesling One of my favorite things about our house renovation is the spiffy, brandy-new Kitchenaid refrigerator that you can see in the corner of this kitchen photo: It’s well-designed, it’s energy-efficient, it keeps our food and drink beautifully … and, because I am particular about mineral and biological tastes in water, I love its …
Lynne Kiesling At Econbrowser, Jim Hamilton has a very thorough post on the economic consequences of falling oil prices. Consumer confidence, inflation, GDP, Fed policy, … and his conclusion is not very optimistic in the short run. In fact, here’s a question for you: will the short-run and long-run adaptations of consumers and producers actually …
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Lynne Kiesling At some point recently in my various travels, I managed to make it into my office, where I found a large envelope with a book in it. My book! Titled Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization: Electricity regulation in a continually evolving environment: Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I *love love love* my job, love being an economist, love teaching, love talking to policymakers and firms about technology and policy … but I am having serious career envy of Lisa Gold (as represented at her new blog), who did research for Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy. If I got this …
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