Lynne Kiesling Although an avowed long-time hockey fan, I have kept silent on the topic of the NHL lockout and the loss of the 2004-2005 season. Why? Disgust. I thought, and continue to think, that all parties acquitted themselves poorly. The owners and the league made strategic errors in estimating the value of broadcast rights …
Lynne Kiesling This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 15th anniversary. EFF is a tireless warrior for preserving and enhancing freedom as communication and information technology evolves. Cory Doctorow has a Boing Boing post discussing EFF’s activities over the past 15 years: This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 15th anniversary — a decade and …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve mentioned before (here and here) that my hometown of Pittsburgh has an abysmal record of using eminent domain to achieve top-down, centralized urban planning goals, with disastrous results. Poor neighborhoods destroyed, a desolate and soulless downtown, and a languishing area downtown around Fifth Ave. and Forbes Ave. that the city has been …
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Lynne Kiesling Glen Whitman’s got a nice post discussing utilitarianism, Coase, Layard, and the implications of Will Wilkinson’s recent evisceration of Layard’s utilitarian interventionist arguments about status and well being. When I first read Will’s post, my initial reaction was “yikes, I hope I never get on Will’s wrong side!” Will cleverly applies Coasian analysis …
Lynne Kiesling In his post inquiring why we organize our kids so much, I like the way Tyler Cowen put his hypothesis 3: Suburban sprawl is a tax on spontaneity. And as more kids get trapped into planned networks, it becomes harder to go it alone. I think there’s some validity to that hypothesis. I …
Lynne Kiesling Cass Sunstein is currently guest-blogging at Lessig’s place, and has a thought-provoking post on information aggregation, Wikipedia, prices, and Hayek. The post itself and the comments have a lot of good content, and I recommend reading them. It also follows on a prior post on information aggregation more generally, as Sunstein works on …
Lynne Kiesling A couple of weeks ago I mentioned pending legislation in New York to legalize interstate wine shipment. Now the news comes that Governor Pataki has signed the legislation into law. At least one state has freed the grapes. Thanks to Todd Zywicki for the pointer. See also Dr. Vino on the topic.
Lynne Kiesling Catching up on my reading … Ray Gifford has a nice post on the role broadband over power lines can play in creating the distributed, interactive, active-demand-enabling, smart and resilient electric power network. BPL potentially has a large role to play in enabling grid-friendly appliances and the customization of electric power service to …
Lynne Kiesling I am enjoying the relatively new Environmental Economics blog. It will be particularly useful in my Environmental Economics course in the fall, especially this post on cost-benefit analysis. It starts with a point that I always go out of my way to demonstrate graphically and mathematically: because of the existence of tradeoffs/opportunity costs, …
Lynne Kiesling This Wired magazine article from July discusses Idealab/Internet impresario Bill Gross’s foray into rooftop solar power innovation. The article does a nice job of discussing the cost disadvantages of solar, some of the infrastructure cost savings from on-site solar that mitigate some of those cost disadvantages, government subsidies, etc.
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