Lynne Kiesling According to Larry Lessig in this article from March’s Wired issue, it’s state officials. In writing about municipal WiFi, Lessig argues that [t]he telcos’ argument isn’t much more subtle than that of the simpleton who began this column: Businesses shouldn’t have to compete against their governments. What the market can do, the government …
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Ian Cook [NOTE: Our anti-spam software does not like something in Ian’s comment, so he graciously gave his consent to post this as a guest post — ed.] Unfortunately, I don’t know much about the institutions specifically within the electric power industry, so I imagine this will be of limited help. But, that’s never really …
Lynne Kiesling In my previous post about organic institutional change, I pondered Ostrom?s eight institutional design principles. She applies her analyses to common pool resources (CPRs). Are they also applicable to changing electricity regulation institutions? Obviously I suspect that the answer is ?yes? or I wouldn?t be putting us all through this. One of the …
Lynne Kiesling In my previous “thinking out loud” post on institutional change, I ended with this question: Institutional change is in many ways itself a constructivist exercise. Is there a way to make the process of institutional change more organic, and thus more likely to lead to “valuable, meaningful, forward-looking, robust, evolutionarily adaptive institutional change”? …
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Lynne Kiesling I don’t read or link to Technology Liberation Front frequently enough. I typically find that the authors there make arguments similar to ones I would make, and do so with more eloquence and expertise. Take, for example, this recent post from Adam Thierer on telecom mergers, which provides some useful analysis of why …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Stuart Benjamin at Volokh Conspiracy for his post on spectrum poicy, including a reference to this National Journal article on spectrum. The evidence keeps mounting that a spectrum policy that 1. is based on licensing and not ownership, 2. protects the fractured incumbency, and 3. is so clearly a political and …
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Lynne Kiesling Over at Crooked Timber, Eszter Hargittai has a post on using social network modeling to make movie, music and book recommendations. I am particularly intrigued by social network modeling, especially the work of Duncan Watts. In addition to analyses of tastes, relationships, organizational structure, etc., I think it may be useful in thinking …
I forgot to mention my husband’s hypothesis: crowding flights into popular time slots will increase the popularity of building an additional runway at O’Hare, a proposal that has been extremely controversial as it would involve the paving of substantial portions of a couple of nearby towns. UPDATE: Gary Leff has a post that builds on …
Friday afternoon, I’m scheduled to come home from a couple of fun and successful days of work in Washington. Because there’s a lot going on at home, I wanted to get home early so I could do some work around the house and still enjoy an evening with the Knowledge Spouse. So I’m on a …
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And I don’t mean computer networks. First, this iinteresting article from Metropolis magazine on “disconnected urbanism”. The author is discussing how cellphones enable us to transcend physicality and still maintain communication relationships, and how our phone number is so much less geographically relevant than it used to be. The author is also concerned that cellphone …
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