Lynne Kiesling Anyone familiar with Settlers of Catan? My programmer RA told me about it this morning, and it sounds very interesting. You settle an uninhabited island, the roll of a die determines resource conditions, and you trade. Whoever does the best wins. Dice rolls during the game change the resource conditions. Totally a barter …
Lynne Kiesling Along the same lines, James Hamilton has a good discussion of CERA’s oil supply forecasts for 2005 and what we can learn from them. One of the themes I’ve seen in the discussions about tomorrow’s OPEC meeting is the expectation that inventories have been building, and that the high inventories will contribute to …
Lynne Kiesling I like the Writely interface. It would also be very convenient for collaborative editing and version control. I had no problem getting the MT API to work so I could post. But I still end up entering MT proper to do two things: set categories for each post, and insert Technorati tags. If …
Michael Giberson So many potential Supreme Court nominees, and so little time to evaluate them all! New World Man has put together a quiz to help you find the one that is right for you. (Be sure to read the update.) It told me I would like Edith Holland Jones: JUDGE EDITH HOLLAN JONESU.S. Court …
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Michael Giberson Raymond Welch is perhaps the only person in Maryland who doesn’t care about the record-breaking heating costs expected to hit homeowners this winter. When Welch hears about soaring energy prices, he smiles and gazes out the window of his farmhouse at his personal natural gas well, which supplies his home with unlimited free …
Michael Giberson As a follow up to Lynne’s post, David Warsh at Economic Principals provided an overview of Acemoglu’s research that does a good job of situating Acemoglu’s work in the broader world of development economics. Well worth reading. See The Man Who Succeeded Gerschenkron. Anyone interested in economists, both in and out of the …
Michael Giberson The headline for Jerry Knight’s column today in the business section of the Washington Post reads “Got the Flu? Blame the Free Market.” Writers are not always responsible for their headlines, but the headline clearly reflects what Knight writes. If you get sick this winter, he writes, call it the “free market flu.” …
Michael Giberson The headline for Jerry Knight’s column today in the business section of the Washington Post reads “Got the Flu? Blame the Free Market.” Writers are not always responsible for their headlines, but the headline clearly reflects what Knight writes. If you get sick this winter, he writes, call it the “free market flu.” …
Lynne Kiesling Six straight weeks of either conference or houseguests … and this weekend involved both! I came home Friday from a very cool conference on ethics and changing energy markets to my visiting in-laws. It’s a nice autumnal weekend here in Chicago, so we are having fun; today will be carving the jack-o-lantern for …
Michael Giberson On the PFF blog, Tom Lenard comments on Larry Lessig?s article, ?Coase?s First Question,? [PDF] in the current issue of Regulation. Lenard summarizes Lessig’s distinction between “Proper-Coaseans” and “Property-Coaseans” in this way: Lessig argues that ?proper-Coaseans? first ask the question of whether the resource in question should be the subject of property at …
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