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Would Someone Please Check the Price of Bread in Connecticut? Another Zone Pricing Post

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Michael Giberson Would someone please check current prices for bread in the towns of Greenwich, Port Chester, and Stamford, Connecticut? A December 23 story in the Greenwich Time notes the arrival, finally, of gasoline prices below $2/gallon in Greenwich, “after weeks of being surrounded by less-than-$2 in gas in municipalities such as Stamford and Port …

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The Blagojevich Saga: the Psychology of Power, and Rent-seeking

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Lynne Kiesling Two items have kept my attention over the holidays with respect to the Blagojevich fiasco. First, back when the story first broke, our local NPR station interviewed my colleague Adam Galinsky on the psychology of power. Adam’s research is fascinating, and in this interview he communicates very effectively how positions of power affect …

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Kids Don’t Know Their History – Energy Czar and Atari

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Michael Giberson At Common Tragedies Daniel Hall links to my post on reading recommendations for the Car Czar which mentions the Atari simulation game “Energy Czar,” only he titles his post: “Maybe Carol Browner should dust off an old Atari 2600.” C’mon now, you couldn’t get a serious game like “Energy Czar” for the Atari 2600. …

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More on Wind Power, Negative Prices, Transmission, and the Production Tax Credit

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Michael Giberson On the greentechmedia site: “Texas Wind Farms Paying People to Take Power“: A power producer typically gets paid for the power it generates. In Texas, some wind energy generators are paying to have someone take power off their hands. Because of intense competition, the way wind tax credits work, the location of the …

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Gasoline Prices in New York Three Weeks After the Zone Pricing Ban

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Michael Giberson Gasoline prices are making the headlines across the country (these headlines found via Google News): Salt Lake City Tribune: When gas prices fall, retailers rejoice, too. Why do they rejoice? See our post on Rockets and Feathers. An Associated Press story: Price of gas hits lowest point in nearly 5 years. Hartford Courant: …

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Tom Friedman and Don Boudreaux: Arguments Against the Auto Bailout

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Lynne Kiesling Tom Friedman and Don Boudreaux are making different, but complementary, arguments against the auto bailout. If you think that you recognize Tom Friedman’s argument in his most recent NYT column, you should: he is analyzing Better Place and its business model, which I did in this post from December 5. One important point …

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