Lynne Kiesling Both Steven Horwitz and Michael Van Winkle have offered up Hayekian analyses of how distributed communication and information networks create a robust discovery process. They do so in the context of analyzing the recent CBS memo forgery controversy. Both are good reads.
Lynne Kiesling Britain’s Consumers Association has asked the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the reasons why Apple prices iTunes downloads higher in the UK than in either the US or France+Germany. British iTunes customers pay 79 pence ($1.40, or 120 eurocents) per song, while French and German residents pay 67.7 pence ($1.20, or 99 …
Lynne Kiesling One of the things we did in California this weekend was visit some Santa Cruz County wineries: Bonny Doon, David Bruce, Bargetto, and Burrell School Vineyards. The Bonny Doon visit was a fun as you would expect if you are at all familiar with their wines, their bottle labels, and their sense of …
Lynne Kiesling I am in California after having attended the Presidential Banquet of the Economic History Association annual meeting on Saturday night. One of the best things about attending the banquet was catching up with friends, including my friend Simone Wegge, whose research in 19th century migration is highlighted in this profile. Very cool stuff!
Lynne Kiesling One of the downsides of being in California at the moment (and having taken a much needed lie in!) was that Juan Non-Volokh beat me to it in blogging Jadish Baghwati’s WSJ commentary today (subscription required) on Kerry’s “Muddled and Maddening” trade policy. It’s a very good piece.
Michael Giberson Actually, the Jamie Whyte interview in the New Scientist had triggered an old idea of mine. You know how it is when you’ve been bested in a debate by some idiot who hits you with a remark that leaves you stuttering for a response, and days later while you lie in bed thinking …
Michael Giberson A posting by Max Borders on The Commons mentioned this interview with Jamie Whyte in the New Scientist. I found Whyte’s comments both incisive and amusing, so Googled his book Bad Thoughts and eventually ended up at Amazon’s U.S. website. On Amazon I was (again) amused to see, under the heading “Customers interested …
Lynne Kiesling This Baseline Magazine article from late June describes how Trek, a bicycle manufacturer in Wisconsin, uses sophisticated technology and data analysis to improve the quality of its bikes, particularly its high-end bikes that elite athletes use. It’s 1997. Paul Andrews is taking a 20-minute spin on a Trek Y-Foil road bike. The bike …
Michael Giberson At a press conference yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell indicated he thought that western Pennsylvania-based steel companies were not smart enough to manage their own electric bills, and needed the assistance of Harrisburg-based political appointees and state government employees. Representatives from the steel industry and the local utility appeared at the press …
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Lynne Kiesling Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is a great example of private initiative and willingness to “walk the talk” in private “internalization” of environmental “externalities” (for background on why I am putting these things in quotes, see this post on the Energy Star certification and irrelevant externalities, this post on network reliability as a public good, …
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