Lynne Kiesling Welcome to Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss, authors of Organizations and Markets. Looks to be a very interesting read; I have known Peter for a while and enjoyed his work. Peter has a post on market-based management today inspired by the WSJ profile of Charles Koch over the weekend, and citing the seminal …
This Popular Mechanics article on alternative fuels has a lot of good information. It doesn’t completely incorporate the economic costs of, for example, having to transport the ethanol to the point of consumption separate from the gasoline. But it does provide a very thorough analysis of the different fuel technologies that are currently under development. …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall’s Tech Central Station column from yesterday brings together a lot of interesting observations on the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report: By way of background, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN-sponsored organization looking into climate change on our behalves. We had the Third Report …
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Lynne Kiesling Catching up with my reading this morning, I see that Mr. Coyote seeks a big-government supporter as an intern to work on government compliance paperwork: … Frequent readers will know that much of my effort has not been business per se, but completing all the government waste paper needed to start a new …
Michael Giberson Locals and tourists in New Orleans celebrated the first weekend of Jazzfest this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; I?ll be joining the fun this coming weekend. This year?s 37th annual festival is slightly scaled back from a year ago ? the second weekend is only three days rather than last year?s four-day event …
Lynne Kiesling Speaking of ethanol and using the political process, Archer Daniels Midland third quarter profits rose by 29 percent: Archer Daniels Midland Co., one of the world’s largest agriculture processors, said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 29 percent, driven by an increase in demand for processed oilseeds and corn byproducts such as ethanol. …
Lynne Kiesling Greg Mankiw recently posted about sugar quotas and ethanol, an interesting addendum to our discussion here last week where the ethanol tariff showed up in the comments. I also posted on protectionism and the sugar industry in the context of Splenda’s increasing market share in February 2005.
Lynne Kiesling An update from others who have been writing about gasoline prices while I have not: Jim Hamilton at EconBrowser about political pandering over gasoline taxes (there’s a shocker …). Tim Haab and John Whitehead are on a roll about gas prices at Environmental Economist. The link is to their “Energy Resources” category, which …
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Lynne Kiesling Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (among other good books) and the subject of several posts here at KP, passed away last week at age 89. Online tributes include Pete Boettke at Austrian Economists and Russ Roberts at Caf? Hayek (note also that Russ categorized his post …
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Lynne Kiesling The outright demagoguery from DC is disgusting but not surprising. More FTC studies of “price gouging”, more threats of “windfall profits” taxes, more ranting and puffery. Ladies and gentlemen (and I use that moniker to be polite, not truthful) of Congress, look within yourselves if you want a true explanation for the increase …
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