And while you’re at the Fraser Forum, also check out Michael DeAlessi’s article on using property rights to combat overfishing. Using property rights to address overfishing is a much-covered topic here at KP, and Michael’s new article adds to the already voluminous evidence that property rights over natural resources produce superior outcomes.
One of the delights of teaching at this IHS seminar this week has been getting acquainted with Jonathan Fortier, a specialist in romantic English literature who is a fellow at Liberty Fund. Jonathan and Jason Clemens of the Fraser Institute in Canada have written an article in the current Fraser Forum about government spending on …
Happy Bastille Day, tout le monde!
Over at Marginal Revolution Tyler has a neat post on software radio; the post also includes some useful background links that I will not reproduce here. Tyler (and Robin) are right: this is huge. Over and over we see technological change moving the scarcity constraints facing us. In this case, it’s radio spectrum that will …
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On Monday the Bush Administration announced a reversal of a Clinton Administration restriction on development on federal lands. According to this New York Times article from Monday, The Bush administration on Monday proposed scuttling a Clinton-era rule that put nearly 60 million acres of national forest largely off limits to logging, mining or other development …
I had no idea how much emotional and physical energy (and time!) trying to renovate this house would take. And we’re not even doing the work ourselves! Just the sheer coordination and the number of decisions that have to be made, and dealing with the inevitable slip-ups (including ones induced into the banking system by …
I agree with Russ Roberts on the dynamic effects of GMail: in a very short time span my Yahoo! email capacity went up from 6 MB to 100 MB, which is good, because I have a couple of friends who like to travel and email home some VERY high-resolution photos. Competition is wonderful.
Virginia Postrel has a lot of good discussion of the issue of productivity growth, based to some extent on William Lewis’s new productivity book and some of Brad DeLong’s posts. Just a pointer to her discussion and links …
Let’s see … the house is totally overwhelming. Some of the walls on the 2nd floor and the living room ceiling had some seriously degraded plaster, so our main wall guys have had to spend a lot more time (and a lot more of our money) rescuing the plaster than we had forseen. But it’s …
I am in Charlottesville, attending the Institute for Humane Studies Social Change Workshop, where I will be speaking on Thursday on a couple of things from my current research. More on that later …
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