Lynne Kiesling Over at the Adam Smith Institute, Megan Rudebeck speaks truth about the cough syrup restrictions that are now all the rage in the US. She comments on a proposed piece of legislation that would create a national cough syrup registry: The only thing this legislation will do is create a nuisance for consumers …
Lynne Kiesling Today the KP Spouse and I leave on a week’s holiday to Maui, so the infrequent posting of the past few weeks will be even more infrequent for the next week. Upon my return I intend to update the site list with these recommended reads: Austrian Economists, Unenumerated, and the Becker-Posner blog. We …
Lynne Kiesling Last Friday, the day now known as “Black Friday” because so many retailers hit their profit margin in the run-up to Christmas shopping, I did not go shopping. Nor did I write. But plenty of others did. Almost Girl (another Chicagoan, yay!) organized Black Friday blogging, with participants including Virginia Postrel and the …
Lynne Kiesling On Sunday Irwin Stelzer had a column in the Times (UK) interpreting the ongoing financial troubles at General Motors, airlines, Kodak, etc. through a Schumpeterian lens: This process ?incessantly? destroys the old economic structure, and creates a new one. ?This process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. Every piece of …
Lynne Kiesling Tyler Cowen has an intriguing post with a “Humean” thought experiment: what if demand curves sloped upward? How quickly would the economy unravel, and who would be the first to notice? In the comments, AZ gets to my first thought upon reading the question: depends on the relative positions of the demand and …
Lynne Kiesling One of the main policy questions in our use of radio spectrum is whether or not to manage the spectrum as a commons. Leaving the 802.11 portion of the spectrum as a commons has created a rich network of wireless access points. Some idealists envision being able to traverse the country and have …
Lynne Kiesling Manolo’s recent post about fashion and new media is a superb read, and not just for those of us who care about fashion: Or if you wish to see the same principle at the work in the matter of the housewares look at this, The George Foreman/Michael Graves Grilling Machine. We now wish …
Lynne Kiesling Still here … but have been utterly crushed with work. It is only courtesy of a flight delay at O’Hare that I am writing now. I am headed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give a talk at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research annual conference. My presentation focuses on demand response …
Lynne Kiesling I am a hockey fan, and have been since childhood. Because I am from Pittsburgh, it is unimaginable that I would support any team other than the Pittsburgh Penguins, even though I have now lived in Chicago for longer than I lived in Pittsburgh. So I was excited to see that OLN had …
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Lynne Kiesling Couple of interesting developments in digital availability of books. Yesterday Google’s release of the beta of Google Print opened many books, particularly ones that are out of copyright (but also ones on which the publishers provided information to Google), for search and online reading. The content provided is the union of the sets …
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