Michael Giberson At Freakonomics they have an interview with Hal Varian, lately the chief economist at Google. Many interesting remarks, but students reading Knowledge Problem may be especially interested in his career advice: Q: Your job sounds extremely interesting. What jobs would you recommend to a young person with an interest, and maybe a bachelors …
Lynne Kiesling Lots of folks who worry about climate change argue for large-scale collective action, usually taking the form of some sort of government intervention that involves some degree of coercion. Guest-blogging at Instapundit, Megan McArdle makes a very trenchant observation about how self-reflective virtuous behavior can reduce the need for collective action, in this …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m on an all-day videoconference here, so don’t have time to read and think and discuss the newly-released CBO report on carbon emission policies. But Daniel Hall at Common Tragedies has a thorough post with extensive links for you to follow. More later. UPDATE: See also this from the Economist’s Free Exchange and …
Lynne Kiesling This certainly qualifies for a “how cool is that?”: new research on amine sponges to separate and absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas. The idea is that they make a sponge material customized specifically to absorb carbon dioxide by combining amines with different metals to create pores of the right size. The researchers …
Lynne Kiesling This new article in Science tackles a question that I’ve had for years, and is creating a stir in the process: once you take into account the emissions of carbon during the corn growing process, what is the net effect of ethanol production and use on carbon concentrations? Most prior studies have found …
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Lynne Kiesling I am feeling grumpy and under the weather, so the closest I’m coming to an original thought is finding that Tyler Cowen has articulated the basis of my cynicism about politics: We pass too many policies just to show politicians are “doing something,” just because it is an election year, just because voters …
Michael Giberson One month ago, you could have bought a ticket to see the Giants in Super Bowl XLII for $86, says The Arizona Republic. Given that prices for Sunday’s game on secondary market Stubhub are offered at $1900 and higher, that $86 sounds like a pretty good deal. More precisely, one month ago you …
Lynne Kiesling Geez, do I feel like a blog binge-purge bulimic … I get on a roll and then I’m in radio silence. In large part that’s because I’m still digging out from my work backlog while I focused on my book manuscript and the the Texas edited volume and conference. The next couple of …
Lynne Kiesling I pride myself on being a version 2.0 adopter, an early-but-not-bleeding edge adopter. I’m also a happy Mac user. Why, therefore, have I (of all people!) not bought an iPhone? Grant McCracken’s recent musings on his newly-acquired iPhone are what prompt my question: The question is “what took me so long?” My wife …
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Michael Giberson If you have a long political memory — say going back about two weeks, which now seems like ages ago — you might remember the furor over the “failure” of polls and prediction markets when Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Prediction markets, the boastful new kid on the block, were …
How Do You Know if a Prediction Market is Any Good? Read More »
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