Lynne Kiesling Will Wilkinson recently had a post on the creation of new knowledge by location. Very interesting (even with the caveat about interpreting data mentioned in the comments). I think this is one of the most important questions of political economy we have: what institutions are successful at creating an environment conducive to the …
Lynne Kiesling If you are an undergraduate or graduate student in the UK, I encourage you to check out the Freedom Week seminar offered 10-14 July 2006. It sounds like it will be a great workshop!
Lynne Kiesling Sometimes the juxtaposition of two items highlights important themes. Today the Wall Street Journal published an article (sub. req.) describing some state efforts to curb retail electricity rate increases. Typically, these efforts take the form of lobbying for political and legislative action to ?control? rates; no mention is made in the article of …
Lynne Kiesling Interesting little conversation going on Truth on the Market … Geoff Manne posts an excerpt from a question to NYT ethicist Randy Cohen from a boy who, seeing a perpetual line for pizza at a recurring school event, goes out and buys a pizza and offers slices to kids at the back of …
Lynne Kiesling I think it depends on how you measure productivity (yeah, I know that’s a bit of a copout). In a recent Wired article: Sixty percent of workers say they always or frequently feel rushed, but those who feel extremely or very productive dropped to 51 percent from 83 percent in 1994, the research …
Lynne Kiesling Reason has a good article on corporate environmentalism from Katherine Mangu-Ward. She highlights lots of very interesting voluntary environmental programs at companies in various types of industries, including fast food and oil. A good read.
Lynne Kiesling Charles Bremner is the (London) Times Paris correspondent, and he had an interesting post the other day about the economics and culture of French and Australian wine: Australia’s success at selling its supposedly simple-minded wines has now created something of a French-style grape glut around Adelaide, with producers turning out too much plonk …
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Lynne Kiesling I suppose it’s an indication of how much of a property rights geek I am that Tyler Cowen’s post on Randian Valentine’s rhetoric almost made me fall out of my chair laughing. Condensed version: Your sweetie: “You treat me like property.” You: “Public or private?” Splendid.
Lynne Kiesling Such was the question discussed at the Liberty Fund conference I attended over the weekend. Our discussions ran the gamut of all of the theoretical and practical issues associated with the question, from the extent to which basic science is a public good to the costs of governments trying to pick technology winners …
Lynne Kiesling Tyler beat me to mentioning today’s WSJ article on cane-based ethanol in Brazil, so I simply refer you to him and his commenters.
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